³¹ One ^(A)runner runs to meet another,
    and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
    that his city is taken on every side;

^57 (A)I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
    ^(B)her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
    declares ^(C)the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

^39 (A)While they are inflamed ^(B)I will prepare them a feast
    and ^(C)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
^(D)then sleep a perpetual sleep
    and not wake, declares the Lord.

^9 (A)These two things shall come to you
    in a moment, ^(B)in one day;
the loss of children and widowhood
    shall come upon you in full measure,
^(C)in spite of your many sorceries
    and the great power of your enchantments.

⁴ My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
    ^(A)the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.
^5 (B)They prepare the table,
    they spread the rugs,^[a]
    they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
    ^(C)oil the shield!
⁶ For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
    let him announce what he sees.
⁷ When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
    riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
    very diligently.”
⁸ Then he who saw cried out:^[b]
(D)“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
    continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
    whole nights.
⁹ And behold, here come riders,
    horsemen in pairs!”
^(E)And he answered,
    ^(F)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
^(G)and all the carved images of her gods
    he has shattered to the ground.”