Prepare the table, Set a watchman in the tower, Eat and drink. Arise, you princes, Anoint the shield!

For thus has the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”

Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night.

Proclamation Against Edom

The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!”

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, The scornful one is consumed, And all who watch for iniquity are cut off—

Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, With their voices they shall sing together; For they shall see eye to eye When the Lord brings back Zion.

His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant; They are all dumb dogs, They cannot bark; Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,