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If he sees a chariot,
    a pair of horses,
Someone riding a donkey,
    someone riding a camel,
Then let him pay heed,
    very close heed.
    Then the watchman cried,
“On the watchtower, my Lord,
    I stand constantly by day;
And I stay at my post
    through all the watches of the night.(A)
Here he comes—
    a single chariot,
    a pair of horses—
He calls out and says,
    ‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon!
All the images of her gods
    are smashed to the ground!’”(B)

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When he sees chariots(A)
    with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
    or riders on camels,(B)
let him be alert,
    fully alert.”

And the lookout[a](C) 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(D)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon(E) has fallen,(F) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(G)
    lie shattered(H) on the ground!’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text A lion