Isaiah 21:3-5

Common English Bible

³ Therefore, I’m shaken to my core in anguish.
    Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.
I’m too bent over to hear,
    too dismayed to see.
⁴ My heart pounds; convulsions overpower me.
    He has turned my evening of pleasure into dread—
⁵     setting the table, spreading the cloth, eating, drinking.
“Arise, captains!
    Polish the shields.”