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Isaiah 21:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees. "
Isaiah 21:6
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4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
6 For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
8 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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Isaiah 21:1
"The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land."
Isaiah 21:2
"A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing."
Isaiah 21:3
"Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see."
Isaiah 21:4
"My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me."
Isaiah 21:5
"They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!"
Isaiah 21:7
"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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