5 Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields! 6 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees. 7 When he sees chariots, teams of horses, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.” 8 Then the guard cries out: “On the watchtower, O Lord, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night. 9 Look what’s coming! A charioteer, a team of horses.” When questioned, he replies, “Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

5 Prepare the table; drink; eat! Rise up, rulers; prepare shields! 6 Because thus the Lord said to me: “Go, post a lookout for yourself, and announce whatever you see.” 7 And I saw two riding horsemen, a rider on a donkey and a rider on a camel. Listen with much listening, 8 and call Ourias to the watchtower of the Lord. And he said: “I stood continually by day, and over the camp I stood the whole night. 9 And look, he himself comes, a rider of a pair of horses!” Then he answered and said, “Babylon has fallen, and all her images and the works of her hands have been crushed to the ground.”