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.
8He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
9and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
