Isaiah 21:8

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay 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 a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon [Confusion]; + 21:9. Quoted in Rev 14:8, 18:2 and all the engraved images of her deities are broken to the ground.

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Cross References

Psalms 63:6when I remember you on my bed, 2 and think about you in the night watches. 1

Isaiah 5:29Their roaring will be like a lioness. 2 They will roar like young lions. 1 Yes, they shall roar, 2 and seize their prey and carry it off, 2 and there will be no one to deliver. 1

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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