Isaiah 21:8

And the one seeing cried out, 1 Adonoi, I stand continually on the mitzpeh (watchtower) in the daytime, 1 and I am set in my mishmeret (guard duty) kol halailot (every night), 1

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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 riders with a pair of parashim, 1 donkey riders and camel riders, 1 then he pays heed diligently with great care; 1

9And, hinei, here cometh a merkavah with a man, 1 a pair of parashim. And he answered and said, 1 Bavel (Babylon) is fallen, is fallen; 1 and all the pesilim (images) of her elohim (g-ds) 1 hath been shattered on the ground. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 63:6My nefesh shall be satisfied as with chelev (fat) and deshen (abundance); 1 and my mouth shall praise Thee with lips of joyful singing; 1

Isaiah 5:29Their roaring shall be like a lion, 1 they shall roar like young lions; 1 yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the teref, 1 and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 1

Isaiah 62:6I have set shomrim upon thy chomot, O Yerushalayim, 1 which shall never hold their peace yom nor lailah; 1 ye that remind Hashem, keep not silence, 1

Jeremiah 25:38He hath left His hiding place, as the lion; 1 for their land is desolate because of the charon (anger) of the oppressor, 1 and because of His charon af.

Jeremiah 50:44Hinei, like an aryeh (lion) coming up from the thicket of the Yarden unto perennial pastures, I will make them suddenly run away from her; and who is the Bachur (Chosen One) that over her I will appoint? For who is like Me? And who can arraign Me? And who is that Ro'eh that will stand before Me?

1 Peter 5:8Be shomer in zililut da'as (sober-mindedness). Your adversary HaSatan [Samma'el], prowls around like a roaring arye (lion), seeking whom to swallow.

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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