² A stern vision is told to me;
    ^(A)the traitor betrays,
    and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O ^(B)Elam;
    lay siege, O ^(C)Media;
all the ^(D)sighing she has caused
    I bring to an end.
³ Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
    ^(E)pangs have seized me,
    like the pangs of a woman in labour;
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;
    ^(F)the twilight I longed for
    has been turned for me into trembling.