Isaiah 21:5-9
Christian Standard Bible
5 Prepare a table,(A) and spread out a carpet!
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
6 For the Lord has said to me,
“Go, post a lookout;
let him report what he sees.
7 When he sees riders—
pairs of horsemen,
riders on donkeys,
riders on camels—
he must pay close attention.”
8 Then the lookout[a] reported,
“Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day,(B)
and I stay at my post all night.
9 Look, riders come—
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen,(C) has fallen.
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”(D)
Footnotes
- 21:8 DSS, Syr; MT reads Then a lion
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