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Isaiah 21:8
“He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 21
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For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
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When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.
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He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
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Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
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You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
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