Edom or Judah. Caird makes it clear, however, that the perspective of the prophets was not limited to the events of their own day alone. The prophets are said to have ‘looked to the future with bifocal vision’, seeing both the historical events of their own day and the final ‘Day of the Lord’, and producing a ‘synthetic picture’. Caird writes, With their near sight they foresaw imminent historical events which would be brought about by familiar human causes; for example, disaster was near for Babylon