Isaiah 21:1-10 - The Fall Of Babylon
1 A message concerning the pasture by the Sea. "Like whirlwinds in the Negev sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a distant land. 2 A dire vision has been announced to me: the traitor betrays, and the plunderer takes loot. Get up, Elam! Attack, Media! I am putting a stop to all the groaning she has caused.
3 Therefore my body is racked with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am so upset that I cannot hear; I am so frightened that I cannot see while I'm reeling around. 4 And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble. 5 They set the tables; they spread the carpets; they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers! Oil the shields!"
6 For this is what the LORD told me: "Go post a lookout. Have him report what he sees. 7 When he sees chariots, each man with a pair of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him pay attention, full attention." 8 Then the lookout shouted: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and I am stationed at my post throughout the night. 9 Look! Here come riders, each man with a pair of horses!" They're shouting out the answer: "Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and they have shattered all the images of her gods on the ground!
10 O my downtrodden people, my wall! I'll tell you what I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel."