Isaiah 21:8

Overview - Isaiah 21
The prophet, bewailing the captivity of his people, sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
11 Edom, scorning the prophet, is moved to repentance.
13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 21:8  (King James Version)
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:
 


cried, A lion
or, cried as a lion.
5:29 Jeremiah 4:7 ; 25:38 49:19 50:44 1 Peter 5:8

I stand
56:10 62:6 Psalms 63:6 ; 127:1 Habakkuk 2:1 Habakkuk 2:2

whole nights
or, every night.