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Then the watcher[a] called out:
“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
    continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
    throughout the night.
Look, there they come, riders,
    horsemen in pairs!”
Then he responded,
    “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
and all the images of her gods
    lie shattered on the ground.”
10 O my threshed and winnowed one,
    what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel, I announce to you.

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  1. Isaiah 21:8 Q Ms: MT a lion

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

10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,(G)
    I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
    from the God of Israel.

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