1The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
2A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.
3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can`t hear; I am dismayed so that I can`t see.
4My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.
6For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees:
7and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed.
