Isa 21:4-9, 47:9, Jer 51:11, 31, 39, 57, Dan 5:1-2 | ESV | STEP | My heart staggers ; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling .

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Isaiah 21:4-9

4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
^athe twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 ^bThey prepare the table,
they spread the rugs, ^{▼▼Or they set the watchman}
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
^doil the shield!
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out: ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion}
^f“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
^gAnd he answered,
^h“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
ⁱand all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”

Isaiah 47:9

9 ^jThese two things shall come to you
in a moment, ^kin one day;
the loss of children and widowhood
shall come upon you in full measure,
^lin spite of your many sorceries
and the great power of your enchantments.

Jeremiah 51:11

11 ^m“Sharpen the arrows!
Take up the shields!
ⁿThe Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of ^othe Medes, because ^phis purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, ^qfor that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for ^rhis temple.

Jeremiah 51:31

31 One ^srunner runs to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
that his city is taken on every side;

Jeremiah 51:39

39 ^tWhile they are inflamed ^uI will prepare them a feast
and ^vmake them drunk, that they may become merry,
^wthen sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

57 ^xI will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
^yher governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares ^zthe King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Daniel 5:1-2

The Handwriting on the Wall

1 ^aaKing Belshazzar ^abmade a great feast for a thousand of his ^aclords and drank wine in front of the thousand.

2 ^adBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ^aethe vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father ^{▼▼Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18} had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.