Isaiah 21:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;

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  • 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 may run who reads it.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • Ps 63:6 : 6 When I remember you on my bed, And think about you in the night watches.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 > Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, And seize their prey and carry it off, And there will be no one to deliver.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • 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,
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 25:38 : 38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?
  • Jer 50:44 : 44 Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

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  • Isa 21:4-7
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    4My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

    5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.

    6For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees:

    7and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with much heed.

  • Isa 21:9-12
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    76%

    9and, behold, 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 my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have I 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."

  • Hab 2:1
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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.

  • 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,

  • Isa 38:13
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    13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

  • Isa 31:4
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    4For thus says Yahweh to me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds are called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of Hosts come down to fight on Mount Zion, and on the hill of it.

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

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

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 88:1
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    1> Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

  • Amos 3:8
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    8The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

  • Jer 51:38
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    38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

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

  • Ezek 12:8
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    8In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,

  • Hos 13:7
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    7Therefore am I to them like a lion; Like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Jer 20:8
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    8For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.

  • Lam 3:10
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    10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    69%

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Jer 50:44
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    44Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

  • 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.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.

  • Jer 4:7
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    7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Zeph 1:16
    69%

    16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

  • 2 Sam 18:25
    68%

    25The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. He came apace, and drew near.

  • Dan 6:19-20
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    68%

    19Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.

    20When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?

  • Jer 31:6
    68%

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

  • Neh 7:3
    68%

    3I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, and everyone [to be] over against his house.

  • Isa 5:29
    68%

    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, And seize their prey and carry it off, And there will be no one to deliver.

  • Ps 55:17
    68%

    17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

  • Ps 22:2
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    2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.

  • Job 30:28
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    28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • Ezek 33:7
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    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.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

  • Isa 56:10
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    10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

  • Ps 102:7
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    7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

  • Isa 22:5
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    5For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.

  • Num 23:24
    68%

    24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.

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    8Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country."

  • 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."

  • Amos 3:4
    67%

    4Will a lion roar in the thicket, When he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, If he has caught nothing?