And he cried, A [a]lion: my Lord, I stand continually upon the watch tower in the daytime, and I am set in my watch every night:

And behold, this man’s chariot cometh with two horsemen. And [b]he answered and said, (A)Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken unto the ground.

10 O [c]my threshing, and the [d]corn of my floor. That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, have I showed unto you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 Meaning, Darius, which overcame Babylon.
  2. Isaiah 21:9 The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the Angel declared that it should be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.
  3. Isaiah 21:10 Meaning, Babylon.
  4. Isaiah 21:10 Hebrew, son.

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