Isaiah 21:6

For thus said the Lord unto me: “Go, set a watchman, Who shall declare what he seeth.”

Noyes 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

5The table is prepared; the watch is set; They eat; they drink; “Arise, ye princes! Anoint the shield!”

7And he saw a troop, horsemen in pairs, Riders on asses, and riders on camels, And he watched with the utmost heed.

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Cross References

Isaiah 62:6Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen; All the day, and all the night, shall they not keep silence; O ye that praise Jehovah, keep not silence,

Ezekiel 3:17Son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me!

Habakkuk 2:1I will stand on my watch-tower, And set myself on the bulwark, And watch to see what he will say to me, And what I shall answer to my expostulation.

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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