Isaiah 21:1-10 - The Fall Of Babylon
1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish. Pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail. I am pained so that I cannot hear. I am dismayed so that I cannot see. 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me. 5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield.
6 For thus has LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. 7 and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. 8 And he cried out as a lion, O LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and am set in my ward whole nights, 9 and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon. And all the graven images of her gods are broken to the ground.
10 O my threshing, and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.