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Here they come:
    charioteers, pairs of horsemen!”
One spoke up and said,
    “Fallen, fallen is Babylon,
        and all the images of her gods
        are shattered on the ground!”
10 Oh, my downtrodden people, threshed on my threshing floor,
    what I heard from the Lord of heavenly forces,
    the God of Israel, I reported to you.

A mysterious dialogue

11 An oracle about Dumah.[a]

Someone is calling to me from Seir:
    “Guard, how long is the night?
    Guard, how long is the night?”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 LXX Edom

Look, here comes a man in a chariot(A)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon(B) has fallen,(C) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(D)
    lie shattered(E) on the ground!’”

10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(F)
    I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
    from the God of Israel.

A Prophecy Against Edom

11 A prophecy against Dumah[a]:(G)

Someone calls to me from Seir,(H)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.