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Then the watcher[a] called out:
“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
    continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
    throughout the night.(A)
Look, there they come, riders,
    horsemen in pairs!”
Then he responded,
    “Fallen, fallen is Babylon,
and all the images of her gods
    lie shattered on the ground.”(B)
10 O my threshed and winnowed one,
    what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel, I announce to you.(C)

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  1. 21.8 Q ms Syr Vg: MT a lion

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