9. Look! Here comes a chariot of men, with a pair of horsemen.” Then one answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods are broken on the ground.”
10. O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, what I heard from Adonai Tzva’ot, God of Israel, I have declared to you.
11. The burden of Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12. The watchman said, “Morning comes, yet also it is night.” If you would inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
13. The burden of Arabia: In the desert brush of Arabia you will stay for the night, you caravans of Dedanites.
14. To him who is thirsty bring water, inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet the fugitive with food.
15. For they fled from swords, from drawn sword, from bent bow and distress of war.
16. For thus Adonai said to me, “Within a year (as with the years of a hired worker), all the glory of Kedar will cease,
17. and the remainder of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few. For Adonai God of Israel has spoken.”