Isaiah 21:6-10
English Standard Version
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out:[a]
(A)“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
(B)And he answered,
(C)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(D)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
10 O (E)my threshed and winnowed one,
what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, I announce to you.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion
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