Isaiah 21:6–12

6 For thus has the Lord said to me:

“Go, set a watchman,

Let him declare what he sees.”

7 And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,

A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,

And he listened earnestly with great care.

8 3Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!

I stand continually on the hwatchtower in the daytime;

I have sat at my post every night.

9 And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”

Then he answered and said,

i“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!

And jall the carved images of her gods

He has broken to the ground.”

10 kOh, my threshing and the grain of my floor!

That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,

The God of Israel,

I have declared to you.

Proclamation Against Edom

11 lThe 4burden against Dumah.

He calls to me out of mSeir,

“Watchman, what of the night?

Watchman, what of the night?”

12 The watchman said,

“The morning comes, and also the night.

If you will inquire, inquire;

Return! Come back!”