Isaiah 21:8

The watchman cries out, + 21:8 Instead of The watchman cries out , some older versions have A lion cries out . 1 “Lord, on the watchtower I stand all day, every day, 1 and at my post I stand all night long.” 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 a chariot, a pair of horsemen, 1 riders on donkeys, and riders on camels, 1 then he must pay attention and be very alert.” 1

9Here comes a chariot with a man and a pair of horsemen. 1 He calls out, “Babylon has fallen, fallen, 1 and all the carved figures of its gods are broken to the ground.” 1

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Cross References

Psalms 63:6when I think about you on my bed 1 and meditate on you in the night hours. 1

Isaiah 5:29Their roaring will be like a lion; they will roar like young lions. 1 They will growl and seize the prey and drag it away, with none to rescue. 1

Isaiah 62:6I have put watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; 1 they are not silent day or night. 1 You who keep reminding Yahweh, do not pause. 1

Jeremiah 25:38Like a young lion, he has left his den, for their land will become a horror because of the oppressor's anger, 1 because of his angry wrath.'” + 25:38 Instead of the oppressor's anger , some ancient copies and modern versions have the oppressor's sword .

Jeremiah 50:44Behold! He goes up like a lion from the heights of the Jordan to the enduring grazing place 1 For I will quickly cause them to run from it, and I will put someone who will be chosen in charge of it. 1 For who is like me, and who will summon me? What shepherd is able to resist me? 1

1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, is stalking 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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