Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 21:8

8 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 .

The sence of the Words thus rendred is this, The Watchman cried out, I see also a Lion, to wit, marching before the Horsemen and Chariots already mentioned: which they suppose to represent Cyrus or Darius marching in the Head of their Armies.

Or, as it is rendred in the Margin, and by divers others, he cried as (which Particle is oft understood, as hath been formerly and frequently noted) a lion, with a terrible Cry, as being affrighted with the Vision, and withal signifying the dreadfulness of that Judgment which was here represented as coming upon Babylon.

The Watchman speaks these Words either to God, or to the Prophet, who by command from God had set him in this Place and Station; to whom therefore he gives the following Account of his Discharge of the Work wherewith he was intrusted.

According to thy Command I have stood, and do yet stand continually, both day and night, upon my Watch-Tower.

Marginal references: Or, cried as a lion.; Hab. 2. 1.; Or, every night.