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Isaiah 21:5-10
The watchman announces Babylon’s fall
Watchmen over Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia · Isaiah 21
Open this scene in the reader →5They set the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Rise up, princes; oil the shield.
6For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, station the watchman; let him report what he sees.”
7And he saw riders, pairs of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels; and he listened intently, with great attentiveness.
8Then he cried, “A lion! On the watchtower, my lord, I stand continually by day, and at my post I am stationed all the nights.”
9And look, here comes a chariot, a man with a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.”
10O my threshed one, and son of my threshing floor, what I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
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