And behold, this man’s chariot cometh with two horsemen. And [a]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 [b]my threshing, and the [c]corn of my floor. That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, have I showed unto you.

11 ¶ The burden of [d]Dumah, he calleth unto me out of [e]Seir, Watchman, what was in the night? Watchman, what was in the night?

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Isaiah 21:10 Meaning, Babylon.
  3. Isaiah 21:10 Hebrew, son.
  4. Isaiah 21:11 Which was a city of the Ishmaelites, and was so named of Dumah, Gen. 25:14.
  5. Isaiah 21:11 A mountain of the Idumeans.

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