Isaiah 21:3-5

English Standard Version

³ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    ^(A)pangs have seized me,
    like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
    I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
⁴ My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
    ^(B)the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.
^5 (C)They prepare the table,
    they spread the rugs,^[a]
    they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
    ^(D)oil the shield!