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The Fall of Babylon

For this is what the Lord told me:

“Go post a lookout.
        Have him report what he sees.
When he sees chariots, each man[a] with a pair of horses,
    riders on donkeys or riders on[b] camels,
let him pay attention,
    full attention.”

Then the lookout[c] shouted:
    “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
        continually by day,
and I am stationed at my post
    throughout the night.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:7 So 1QIsaa 4QIsaa; cf. v. 9; MT LXX lack each man
  2. Isaiah 21:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads train of donkeys or train of
  3. Isaiah 21:8 So 1QIsaa Syr; MT reads Then a lion