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Then one day the watchman[a] called out,

“My master, every day I have been in the watchtower[b] watching.
    Every night I have been standing on duty.
Look! I see a man in a chariot
    with a team of horses.[c]

The messenger said,
    “Babylon has been defeated!
    It has fallen to the ground!
All the statues of her false gods
    were thrown to the ground and broken to pieces.”

10 My people, you will be like the grain crushed on my threshing floor. I have told you everything I heard from the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 the watchman “the seer,” an ancient title for a prophet. The standard Hebrew text has “a lion.”
  2. Isaiah 21:8 watchtower A tall building where guards stood and watched to see if anyone was coming near their city.
  3. Isaiah 21:9 a man … horses Or “a column of teams of horsemen.” This might be a team of horses pulling a war chariot or mounted archers in the Assyrian army who often worked in pairs.

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