Isaiah 21:8
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
Note DSS and Syriac; MT lion
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
Note he…: or, cried as a lion
Note whole…: or, every night
He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- cried, A lion
- or, cried as a lion.
- Isaiah 5:29; Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 25:38; Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; 1 Peter 5:8
- I stand
- Isaiah 56:10; Isaiah 62:6; Psalm 63:6; Psalm 127:1; Habakkuk 2:1, 2