2 A troubling vision is declared to me:

“The treacherous one acts treacherously,s

and the destroyer destroys.

Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!

I will put an end to all the groaning.”

3 Therefore I amD filled with anguish.

Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.t

I am too perplexed to hear,

too dismayed to see.

4 My heart staggers;

horror terrifies me.

He has turned my last glimmer of hopeE

into sheer terror.u