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Isaiah 21:8

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Isaiah 21:8 · World English Bible

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Isaiah 21:8 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

NHEB New Heart English Bible

He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

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In context

5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”

8 He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

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