Isaiah 21:6
For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 18:25So he called out and told the king. “If he is alone,” the king replied, “he bears good news.” As the first runner drew near,
Isaiah 62:6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
Ezekiel 3:17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
Habakkuk 2:1I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was… Read the whole commentary →