[a]Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the (A)watchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.
And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
(B)“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And (C)all the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”

10 (D)Oh, 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 DSS Then the observer cried, “My Lord!

And the lookout[a](A) shouted,

“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
    every night I stay at my post.
Look, here comes a man in a chariot(B)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon(C) has fallen,(D) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(E)
    lie shattered(F) on the ground!’”

10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(G)
    I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
    from the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion