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Then[a] the watchman[b] called,

“Lord, I am standing on the watchtower continually by day,
    and I am standing at my post throughout[c] the night.
And look at this! A man’s a chariot is coming,
    a pair of horsemen!”

Then[d] he responded and said,

“It has fallen! Babylon has fallen!
    And all the images of her gods are[e] smashed on the ground!”
10 My downtrodden people
    and the son of my threshing floor,

I will announce to you what I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 Or “And”
  2. Isaiah 21:8 Literally “lion”
  3. Isaiah 21:8 Literally “all of”
  4. Isaiah 21:9 Or “and”
  5. Isaiah 21:9 Hebrew “is”