Holy Scripture

Isaiah 21:7

A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 6, 7.) For the Lord said to me: Go and set a watchman, and whatever he sees, let him announce. And he saw a chariot of two horsemen, a rider on a donkey, and a rider on a camel, and he examined carefully with great attention, and the lion roared. LXX: For thus says the Lord to me: Go and set a watchman for your…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

7And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.

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In context

5Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.

6For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.

— Isaiah 21:7 —

8Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watchtower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all the night:

9and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.

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