القراءة بلغتين

قَولٌ على بَرِّيَّةِ البَحْر كما تَمُرُّ الزَّوابِعُ في الجَنوب كذٰلك يأتي مِنَ البَرِّيَّة، مِن أَرضٍ مُخيفة

كُشِفَت لي رُؤيا قاسِيَة: «الخائِنُ يَخونُ والمُدَمِّرُ يُدَمِّر. إِصعَدي يا عَيلام، حاصِري يا ميدِيا». إِنِّي سَكَّنتُ كُلَّ نُواحٍ مِنها

فلِذٰلك ٱمْتَلأَت كُلْيَتايَ أَلَمًا وأَخَذَني المَخاضُ كمَخاضِ الَّتي تَلِد. أُرهِقتُ حتَّى إِنِّي لا أَسمَع وٱرتَعتُ حتَّى إِنِّي لا أُبصِر

ضَلَّ قَلْبي وٱعتَراني الِٱرتِعاش فصارَ الشَّفَقُ الَّذي أَتوقُ إِلَيه رُعبًا

ها إِنَّ المائِدَةَ تُعَدّ والبُسُطَ تُفرَش وهم يأكُلونَ ويَشرَبون. قوموا أَيُّها الرُّؤَساءُ وٱمسَحوا التُّروس

فإِنَّه هٰكذا قالَ لِيَ السَّيِّد: «إِذْهَبْ فأَقِمِ الرَّقيبَ وليُخبِرْ بِما جَرى

فيَرى رَكْبًا، أَزْواجَ فُرْسان رُكَّابَ حَميرٍ ورُكَّابَ جِمال فيُصْغي إِصْغاءً شَديدًا»

ثُمَّ يَصرُخُ الرَّقيب: «إِنِّي قائِمٌ على المَرصَدِ دائمًا في النَّهار وواقِفٌ على المَحرَسِ طولَ اللَّيالي

فإِذا بِرَكْبٍ مِنَ الرِّجال وأَزْواجِ فُرْسانٍ قد أَقبَلوا». ثُمَّ عادَ وقال: «سَقَطَت سَقَطَت بابِل وحُطِّمَت إِلى الأَرضِ جَميعُ مَنْحوتاتِ آلِهَتِها»

يا مَن دُستُه، يا ٱبنَ بَيدَري إِنَّ الَّذي سَمِعتُه مِن رَبِّ القُوَّاتِ إِلٰهِ إِسْرائيل قد أَخبَرتُكم بِه

قَولٌ على دومة: يُصرَخُ إِلَيَّ مِن سِعير: «يا حارِس، ما الوَقتُ مِنَ اللَّيل؟ يا حارِس، ما الوَقتُ مِنَ اللَّيل؟»

فقالَ الحارس: «الصَّباحُ آتٍ واللَّيلُ أَيضًا إِن سأَلتُم فٱسأَلوا. إِرجِعوا تَعالَوا»

قَولٌ على العَرَبَة: في الغابَةِ في العَرَبَةِ تَبيتون يا قَوافِلَ الدَّدانِيِّين

هاتوا الماءَ لِلِقاءِ العَطْشان يا سُكَّانَ أَرضِ تَيماء. إِستَقبِلوا الهارِبَ بِالخُبْز

فإِنَّهم قد هَرَبوا مِن أَمامِ السُّيوف مِن أَمامِ السَّيفِ المَسْلول والقَوسِ المَشْدودةِ وشِدَّةِ القِتال

لِأَنَّه هٰكذا قالَ لِيَ السَّيِّد: «بَعدَ سَنَةٍ كسِني الأَجير، يَفْنى كُلُّ مَجدِ قيدار

وباقي عَدَدِ أَصْحابِ القِسِيِّ مِن أَبْطالِ بَني قيدار يُصبِحُ شَيئًا قَليلًا، لِأَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَ إِسْرائيلَ قد تَكَلَّم»

The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

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

When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

The burden of Dumah. One 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. Come back again.”

The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.

They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”