Isaiah 21:8

Then the lookout shouted “Sir, I've stood here on the watchtower day after day; night after night I've remained at my post.

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In The King James Version

And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

In Context

7When he sees chariots coming pulled by pairs of horses, riders on donkeys and on camels, he should watch very carefully, paying close attention.”

9Now look! A man in a chariot with a pair of horses is coming.” Then he said, “Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the idols of its gods lie smashed on the ground!”

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Cross References

Psalms 63:6I think of you all night long as I lie on my bed meditating about you.

Isaiah 5:29They roar like lions, like young lions. They growl, and pounce on their prey. They drag it off so it can't be rescued.

Isaiah 62:6I have placed watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they won't ever be silent, day or night. You who pray to the Lord, don't ever stop and take a rest.

Jeremiah 25:38The Lord has left his den like a lion, because their country has been devastated by the invading armies, and because of the Lord's fierce anger.

Jeremiah 50:44Watch out! I'm going to come like a lion from the tangled undergrowth beside the Jordan to attack the animals grazing the green pasture. In fact I'm going to chase the Babylonians from their land very quickly. Who will I choose to conquer them? Who is like me? Who can challenge me? Which leader could oppose me?

1 Peter 5:8Be responsible, and stay alert. The devil, your enemy, is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

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 →

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