² A ^(A)harsh vision has been declared to me;
The ^(B)treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys.
Go up, ^(C)Elam, lay siege, Media;
I have made an end of all ^[a]the groaning she has caused.
³ For this reason my ^(D)loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a ^(E)woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
⁴ My heart ^[b]reels; ^[c]horror terrorizes me;
The twilight I longed for has been ^(F)turned for me into trembling.

²⁴ We have ^(A)heard the report of it;
Our hands are limp.
^(B)Distress has taken hold of us,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.