Isaiah 21:8

Translations

Modern

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

Traditional

And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

Literal

And the lookout called out: “Upon the watchtower, my Lord, I stand continually by day, and at my post I take my stand every night.

Latin

Et clamavit leo: Super speculam Domini ego sum, stans jugiter per diem; et super custodiam meam ego sum, stans totis noctibus.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Messages Against the Nations Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Habakkuk 2:1–2
I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the ramparts. I will watch to see what He will say to me, and how I should answer when corrected.
Psalm 63:6
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Isaiah 62:6
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Isaiah 56:10
Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
Jeremiah 25:38
He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.
Jeremiah 50:44
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
Jeremiah 49:19
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
Psalm 127:1
A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

Parallels

Revelation 18:1–8

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Isaiah, Book of Tower Watchman

Topics

Babylon: City of Prophecies Concerning Babylon: Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs, and Exhortations of Denunciations Against Babylon Persia: Prophecies Concerning Watchman: On Towers Watchmen in Time of Danger: Vigilant Night and Day

Isaiah 21:8

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