Isaiah 21:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

And he cryed, A lyon: my lorde, I stand continually vpon ye watche towre in the day time, and I am set in my watche euery night:

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  • Hab 2:1-2 : 1 I will stand vpon my watch, and set me vpon the towre, and wil looke and see what he would say vnto mee, and what I shall answere to him that rebuketh me. 2 And the Lorde answered me, and sayde, Write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
  • Ps 63:6 : 6 When I remember thee on my bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night watches.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A song of degrees, or Psalme of Salomon. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the Lorde keepe the citie, the keeper watcheth in vaine.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away, and none shall deliuer it.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Their watchmen are all blinde: they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe and delite in sleeping.
  • Isa 62:6 : 6 I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles, O Ierusalem, which all the day & all the night continually shal not cease: ye that are mindfull of the Lord, keepe not silence,
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 The lyon is come vp from his denne, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 25:38 : 38 He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 Beholde, hee shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the strong dwelling place: for I will make Israel to rest, euen I will make him to haste away from her, and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against her? for who is like mee? and who will appoint me the time? and who is the shepheard that will stande before me?
  • Jer 50:44 : 44 Beholde, hee shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the strong habitation: for I will make Israel to rest, and I will make them to haste away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against her? for who is like me, and who will appoynt me the time? and who is the shepheard that will stande before me?

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    4Mine heart failed: fearefulnesse troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into feare vnto me.

    5Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch towre: eate, drinke: arise, ye princes, anoynt the shielde.

    6For thus hath the Lord said vnto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he seeth.

    7And he sawe a charet with two horsemen: a charet of an asse, and a charet of a camel: and he hearkened and tooke diligent heede.

  • Isa 21:9-12
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    9And beholde, this mans charet commeth with two horsemen; he answered and said, Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken vnto the ground.

    10O my threshing, and the corne of my floore. That which I haue heard of the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, haue I shewed vnto you.

    11The burden of Dumah. He calleth vnto me out of Seir, Watchman, what was in ye night? Watchman, what was in the night?

    12The watchman saide, The morning commeth, and also the night. If yee will aske, enquire: returne and come.

  • Hab 2:1
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    1I will stand vpon my watch, and set me vpon the towre, and wil looke and see what he would say vnto mee, and what I shall answere to him that rebuketh me.

  • Isa 62:6
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    6I haue set watchmen vpon thy walles, O Ierusalem, which all the day & all the night continually shal not cease: ye that are mindfull of the Lord, keepe not silence,

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    13I rekoned to the morning: but he brake all my bones, like a lion: from day to night wilt thou make an ende of me.

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    4For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me, As the lyon or lyons whelpe roareth vpon his praye, against whom if a multitude of shepheards be called, hee will not be afraide at their voyce, neither will humble him selfe at their noise: so shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1He cryed also with a loude voyce in mine eares, saying, The visitations of the citie draw neere, and euery man hath a weapon in his hande to destroy it.

  • Jer 4:21
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    21Howe long shall I see the standert, and heare the sounde of the trumpet?

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

  • Ps 88:1
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    1A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth vpon Malath Leannoth. O Lorde God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.

  • Amos 3:8
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    8The lyon hath roared: who will not bee afraide? the Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophecie?

  • Jer 51:38
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    38They shal rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

  • Ezek 21:8
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    8Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • Ezek 12:8
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  • Hos 13:7
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    7And I wil be vnto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshur.

  • Joel 1:6
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  • Jer 20:8
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    8For since I spake, I cryed out of wrong, and proclaimed desolation: therefore the word of the Lorde was made a reproche vnto me, and in derision daily.

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    10He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, & none made them afrayde.

    12The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.

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    12Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

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    16A day of the trumpet and alarme against the strong cities, and against the hie towres.

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    25And the watchman cryed, & tolde ye king; the King said, If he be alone, he bringeth tidings; he came apace, and drew neere.

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    19Then the King arose early in the morning, & went in all haste vnto the denne of lyons.

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    4Will a lion roare in ye forest, when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?