And behold, this man’s chariot cometh with two horsemen. And [a]he answered and said, (A)Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken unto the ground.

10 O [b]my threshing, and the [c]corn of my floor. That which I have heard of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, have I showed unto you.

11 ¶ The burden of [d]Dumah, he calleth unto me out of [e]Seir, Watchman, what was in the night? Watchman, what was in the night?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:9 The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the Angel declared that it should be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.
  2. Isaiah 21:10 Meaning, Babylon.
  3. Isaiah 21:10 Hebrew, son.
  4. Isaiah 21:11 Which was a city of the Ishmaelites, and was so named of Dumah, Gen. 25:14.
  5. Isaiah 21:11 A mountain of the Idumeans.

Look, here comes a man in a chariot(A)
    with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
    ‘Babylon(B) has fallen,(C) has fallen!
All the images of its gods(D)
    lie shattered(E) on the ground!’”

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

A Prophecy Against Edom

11 A prophecy against Dumah[a]:(G)

Someone calls to me from Seir,(H)
    “Watchman, what is left of the night?
    Watchman, what is left of the night?”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 Dumah, a wordplay on Edom, means silence or stillness.