Isaiah 21:8 BSB — MannaFest

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.

BSB

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ASV

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;

KJV

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:

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 8.) And he looked closely with much attention, and the lion cried out: I am standing continually on the watchtower of the Lord, both day and night. And that lookout who was positioned to see what was coming cried out like a lion, or rather, he is called a lion himself as a prophet.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And he cried, a lion,.... That is, the watchman cried, a lion, or that he saw a lion; not Uriah the priest, as the Septuagint; nor Habakkuk, as some Jewish writers; but Cyrus, at the head of the Persian and Median armies, compared to a lion for his fierceness, courage, and strength; see 2Ti 4:17 a type of Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, by whom antichrist, or mystical Babylon, will be destroyed, Rev 5:

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And he cried, A lion “He that looked out on the watch” - The present reading, אריה aryeh, a lion, is so unintelligible, and the mistake so obvious, that I make no doubt that the true reading is הראה haroeh, the seer; as the Syriac translator manifestly found it in his copy, who renders it by דקוא duka, a watchman.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְרָ֖א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he called out	H7121 →
אַרְיֵ֑ה	'ar.Yeh	a lion	H738 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מִצְפֶּ֣ה׀	mitz.Peh	a watchtower	H4707 →
אֲדֹנָ֗י	'a.do.Nai	O Lord	H136 →
אָנֹכִ֞י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
עֹמֵ֤ד	'o.Med	[am] standing	H5975 →
תָּמִיד֙	ta.Mid	continually	H8548 →
יוֹמָ֔ם	yo.Mam	by day	H3119 →
וְעַל־	ve.'al-	and at	H5921 →
מִ֨שְׁמַרְתִּ֔י	mish.mar.Ti	post my	H4931 →
אָנֹכִ֥י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
נִצָּ֖ב	ni.Tzav	[am] stationed	H5324 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַלֵּילֽוֹת׃	ha.lei.Lot	the nights	H3915 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 63:6
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
leads to
- Psalms 42:8
  The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 119:147–148
  I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- Psalms 149:5
  Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
- Psalms 119:55
  In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
- Psalms 77:4–6
  You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
Through
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and…
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:6
  Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 6:11
  Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
Through
Jeremiah 49:19
Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one…
leads to
- Jeremiah 12:5
  “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah