5. They set the tables,they spread the rugs,they eat, they drink!Get up, you officers,oil the shields!
6. This is what the Lord says to me:‘Go, post a lookoutand let him report what he sees.
7. When he sees chariotswith teams of horses,riders on donkeysor riders on camels,let him be alert,fully alert.’
8. And the lookout shouted,‘Day after day, my Lord, I stand on the watchtower;every night I stay at my post.
9. Look, here comes a man in a chariotwith a team of horses.And he gives back the answer:“Babylon has fallen, has fallen!All the images of its godslie shattered on the ground!” ’
10. My people who are crushed on the threshing-floor,I tell you what I have heardfrom the Lord Almighty,from the God of Israel.