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    Look! They’re coming just as you said: a chariot driver and a team of horses.
        The driver tells me “Babylon is fallen!
    Our oppressor has fallen and all their idols,
        worthless imposters of the one True God, are shattered on the ground.”

10 O, my people, who have been threshed and winnowed like wheat,
    I am telling you what the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, Israel’s God, said.

11 A message about Duma:
    Someone is calling me from Seir.

Edomite (to a sentinel): How much remains of this night?
    How long until morning?

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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.