Isaiah 21:6
Good News Translation
Then the Lord said to me, "Go and post a sentry, and tell him to report what he sees.

New Revised Standard Version
For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, post a lookout, let him announce what he sees.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to me, "Send guards to find out what's going on.

New American Bible
For thus my Lord said to me: Go, station a watchman, let him tell what he sees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

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Isaiah 62:6 Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,

2 Kings 9:17-20 The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all well? . . .

Jeremiah 51:12,13 Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. . . .

Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

Ezekiel 33:2-7 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them: . . .

Habakkuk 2:1,2 I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him that reproveth me. . . .

Context
Babylon is Fallen
5Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield. 6For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.7And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider upon an ass, and a rider upon a camel: and he beheld them diligently with much heed.…
Cross References
2 Kings 9:17
The watchman therefore, that stood upon the tower of Jezrahel, saw the troop of Jehu coming, and said: I see a troop. And Joram said: Take a chariot, and send to meet them, and let him that goeth say: Is all well?

Songs 3:3
The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

Isaiah 21:5
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