And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
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Gill's Exposition
And he cried, a lion,.... That is, the watchman cried, a lion, or that he saw a lion; not Uriah the priest, as the Septuagint; nor Habakkuk, as some Jewish writers; but Cyrus, at the head of the…
Barnes' Notes
And he cried, A lion - Margin, ‘As a lion.’ This is the correct rendering. The particle כ (k) - ‘as,’ is not unfrequently omitted (see Isa 62:5; Psa 11:1). That is, ‘I see them approach with the…
We had one burden of Babylon before (ch. 13); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon…
Cambridge Bible
If the text be right, the first clause must read: And he cried (like) a lion (Rev 10:3).
My lord The A.V. seems here to assume that the prophet is addressed by his watchman. R.V. and most interpreters…
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