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Look, here comes a chariot of men,
    horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered and said,
    “Fallen, fallen is Babylon.
And all the graven images of her gods
    lie shattered on the ground.”

10 O my threshed people and my afflicted of the threshing floor!
    What I have heard from the Lord of Hosts,
the God of Israel,
    I have declared to you.

A Prophecy Against Edom

11 The oracle of Dumah.

He calls to me out of Seir,
    “Watchman, how far gone is the night?
    Watchman, how far gone is the night?”

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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.