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Then he cried out like a lion:
“Upon the watch tower, Adonai, I stand continually in the daytime,
    and stay at my post every night.
Look! Here comes a chariot of men,
    with a pair of horsemen.”
Then one answered and said,
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon!
All the images of her gods
    are broken on the ground.”
10 O my people, crushed on the threshing floor,
what I heard from Adonai Tzva’ot, God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

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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