Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night.

New American Standard Bible

Then the lookout called,
O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower,
And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

King James Version

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:

Holman Bible

Then the lookout reported,
“Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day,
and I stay at my post all night.

International Standard Version

Then the lookout shouted: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and I am stationed at my post throughout the night.

A Conservative Version

And he cried out as a lion, O LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and am set in my ward whole nights,

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

And the lookout called like a lion,

“O Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower by day,
And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

Bible in Basic English

And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:

Darby Translation

And he cried as a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

Julia Smith Translation

And he will call, A lion: on the watch-tower my lord, I stand continually in the day, and upon my watch I stand all the night

King James 2000

And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am stationed in my post whole nights:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then [the] {watchman} called, "Lord, I [am] standing on [the] watchtower continually by day, and I [am] standing at my post {throughout} the night.

Modern King James verseion

And he cried, A lion! My lord, without ceasing, I stand on the watchtower by day, and I am stationed at my post all the nights.

NET Bible

Then the guard cries out: "On the watchtower, O sovereign master, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.

New Heart English Bible

Then the lookout shouted: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

The Emphasized Bible

Then cried he. A lion! On the watch, O My Lord, had I been standing continually, by day, And at my post, had I been stationed whole nights; -

Webster

And he cried, a lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day time, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And he crieth -- a lion, 'On a watch-tower my lord, I am standing continually by day, And on my ward I am stationed whole nights.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he cried
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

A lion
אריה ארי 
'ariy 
Usage: 80

My lord
אדני 
'Adonay 
Usage: 438

מצפּה 
Mitspeh 
Usage: 2

in the daytime
יומם 
Yowmam 
Usage: 53

and I am set
נצב 
Natsab 
Usage: 75

in my ward
משׁמרת 
Mishmereth 
Usage: 78

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

The Fall Of Babylon

7 And when he had waited diligently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel. 8 And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night. 9 And behold, here cometh a chariot of men with two horsemen." And he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! She is turned upside down, and all the images of her gods are smitten to the ground!"

Cross References

Psalm 63:6

Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking?

Psalm 127:1

{A song of the stairs} Except the LORD build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. Except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Isaiah 5:29

Their cry is as it were of a lion, and the roaring of them like lion's whelps. They shall roar, and haunch up the prey, and no man shall recover it or get it from them.

Isaiah 56:10

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

Isaiah 62:6

Upon the walls of Jerusalem, I have set keepers which shall never cease, neither by day nor yet by night.

Jeremiah 4:7

For the spoiler of the Gentiles is broken up from his place, as a lion out of his den, that he may make the land waste, and destroy the cities, so that no man may dwell therein.

Jeremiah 25:38

They shall forsake their folds like as a lion: for their lands shall be waste, because of the wrath of the destroyer, and because of his fearful indignation.

Jeremiah 49:19

Behold, like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Etham, so will I drive him, and make him run against her. But who is the young man that I will ordain thereto? Who is like unto me? What is he that will strive with me? What shepherd may stand in my hands?

Jeremiah 50:44

Behold, like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Ethan, so will I drive them forth, and make them run against her. But whom shall I choose out, and ordain to such a thing? For who is like me, or who will strive with me? Or what shepherd may stand against me?

Habakkuk 2:1-2

I stood upon my watch, and set me upon my bulwark, to look and see what he would say unto me, and what answer I should give him that reproveth me.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

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