1The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land. (赛13:1; 耶51:1; 耶51:36; 耶51:42)2A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end. (赛11:11; 赛13:17; 赛24:16; 赛33:1; 结9:4)3Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. (赛13:8)4My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. (申28:67)5They prepare the table, they spread the rugs,[1] they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield! (撒下1:21; 耶51:39; 耶51:57)6For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees.7When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently.”8Then he who saw cried out:[2] “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights. (哈2:1)9And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.” (赛46:1; 耶51:8; 哈2:2; 启14:8; 启18:2)10O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you. (耶51:33; 摩1:3; 弥4:13)11The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?” (创25:14; 申2:8; 代上1:30; 赛13:1; 结35:2)12The watchman says: “Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.” (伯36:20; 诗37:36; 摩5:8)13The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites. (创25:3; 创37:25; 赛13:1; 耶25:23)14To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema. (伯6:19)15For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.16For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. (创25:13; 诗120:5; 歌1:5; 赛16:14; 赛60:7; 耶2:10; 耶49:28; 结27:21)17And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.” (赛1:20; 赛21:16)