Then [a]the lookout called,

(A)O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower,
And I am stationed every night at my guard post.
“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “(B)Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the (C)images of her gods [b]are shattered on the ground.”
10 O my (D)threshed people, and my [c]afflicted of the threshing floor!
What I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel, I make known to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 So DSS; M.T. he called like a lion
  2. Isaiah 21:9 Lit he has shattered to the earth
  3. Isaiah 21:10 Lit son