Isaias 21:8
And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
Challoner: And a lion cried outThat is, I Isaias seeing the approaching ruin of Babylon, have cried out as a lion roaring.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et clamavit leo : Super speculam Domini ego sum, stans jugiter per diem ; et super custodiam meam ego sum, stans totis noctibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κάλεσον Οὐρείαν εἰς τὴν σκοπιάν. Κύριος εἶπεν Ἔστην διὰ παντὸς ἡμέρας, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς παρεμβολῆς ἐγὼ ἔστην ὅλην τὴν νύκτα,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְרָ֖א אַרְיֵ֑ה עַל מִצְפֶּ֣ה אֲדֹנָ֗י אָנֹכִ֞י עֹמֵ֤ד תָּמִיד֙ יוֹמָ֔ם וְעַל מִ֨שְׁמַרְתִּ֔י אָנֹכִ֥י נִצָּ֖ב כָּל הַלֵּילֽוֹת
Haydock's commentary
Out. Literally, "He cried, a lion." (Haydock)
Cyrus appears like one. Septuagint, "And call Urias to the watch-tower," &c., chap. viii. 2.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.