(A)The watchmen who went about the city found me.
They struck me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls
Took my veil away from me.

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For thus has the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman,
Let him declare what he sees.”
And he saw a chariot with a pair of horsemen,
A chariot of donkeys, and a chariot of camels,
And he listened earnestly with great care.
[a]Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the (A)watchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:8 DSS Then the observer cried, “My Lord!

Proclamation Against Edom

11 (A)The [a]burden against Dumah.

He calls to me out of (B)Seir,
“Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 oracle, prophecy

12 The watchman said,
“The morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
Return! Come back!”

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