Isaiah 21:6

For 'Adonay [Lord] said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

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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

5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem [City of peace]. 2 They will never be silent day nor night. 1 You who call on Adonai, take no rest, 2

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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