Isaiah 21:8-12

Then the lookout called, “Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

My downtrodden people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the Lord of armies, The God of Israel, I make known to you. Pronouncements about Edom and Arabia

The pronouncement concerning Edom: One keeps calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?”

The watchman says, “Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again.”