1The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land. (إش 13:1; إر 51:1; إر 51:36; إر 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. (إش 11:11; إش 13:17; إش 24:16; إش 33:1; حز 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. (إش 13:8)4My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. (تث 28:67)5They prepare the table, they spread the rugs,[1] they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield! (2صم 1:21; إر 51:39; إر 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. (حب 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.” (إش 46:1; إر 51:8; حب 2:2; رؤ 14:8; رؤ 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. (إر 51:33; عا 1:3; مي 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?” (تك 25:14; تث 2:8; 1أخ 1:30; إش 13:1; حز 35:2)12The watchman says: “Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.” (أي 36:20; مز 37:36; عا 5:8)13The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites. (تك 25:3; تك 37:25; إش 13:1; إر 25:23)14To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema. (أي 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. (تك 25:13; مز 120:5; نش 1:5; إش 16:14; إش 60:7; إر 2:10; إر 49:28; حز 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.” (إش 1:20; إش 21:16)