Isaiah 21:8

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

7 And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,
A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,
And he listened earnestly with great care.

8 ¹Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the ^awatchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.

9 And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
^a“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And ^ball the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”

10 ^aOh, my threshing and the grain of my floor!
That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 21:8

And he cried, A lion "He that looked out on the watch" - The present reading, aryeh , a lion, is so unintelligible, and the mistake so obvious, that I make no doubt that the true reading is haroeh , the seer; as the Syriac translator manifestly found it in his copy, who renders it by duka , a watchman.

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