Isaiah 21:6

World English Bible (2000)

For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

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  • 2 Kgs 9:17-20 : 17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" 18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" The watchman said, "The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back." 19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" 20 The watchman said, "He came to them, and isn't coming back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously."
  • Jer 51:12-13 : 12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
  • Ezek 3:17 : 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Ezek 33:2-7 : 2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman; 3 if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn't take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. 7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Hab 2:1-2 : 1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. 2 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
  • Isa 62:6 : 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

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    7When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."

    8He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

    9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

    10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

    11The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"

    12The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

  • Ezek 33:6-7
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    6But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

    7So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • Jer 6:17-18
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    17I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen!'

    18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.

  • Hab 2:1-2
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    1I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

    2Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

  • Ezek 3:17
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    17Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • Ezek 21:1-2
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    1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

  • Isa 21:5
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    5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

  • Jer 31:6
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    6For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.

  • Jer 4:16
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    16"Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, 'Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

  • Ezek 33:1-2
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    1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

  • Ezek 21:8
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    8The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 6:1
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    1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Isa 62:6
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    6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

  • Jer 17:19
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    19Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

  • Jer 4:21
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    21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

  • Ezek 12:21
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    21The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 22:1
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    1Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Jer 21:11
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    11Touching the house of the king of Judah, hear the word of Yahweh:

  • 2 Sam 18:26
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    26The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter, and said, "Behold, a man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings news."

  • Jer 1:12-13
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    12Then Yahweh said to me, "You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it."

    13The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, "What do you see?" I said, "I see a boiling caldron; and it is tipping away from the north."

  • Isa 6:9
    73%

    9He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'

  • Zech 6:9
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    9The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 21:18
    72%

    18The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,

  • Ezek 9:1
    72%

    1Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Jer 6:27
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    27"I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.

  • Isa 18:3
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    3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

  • Isa 41:27
    72%

    27I am the first to say to Zion, 'Behold, look at them;' and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.

  • Jer 22:1
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    1Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

  • Ezek 12:1
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    1The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,

  • Jer 11:6
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    6Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

  • 2 Kgs 9:17
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    17Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'"

  • Ezek 7:6
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    6An end has come, the end has come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes.

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Ezek 40:4
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    4The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

  • Isa 21:2
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    2A 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.

  • Jer 6:22
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    22Thus says Yahweh, "Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

  • Isa 22:15
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    15Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, "Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

  • Zech 1:10
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    10The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."

  • Jer 51:12
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    12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.