Isaiah 21:6
For this is what the Lord says to me:
What it says
The Lord tells Isaiah to post a watchman who will report what he sees.
What it is doing
This verse introduces the watchman motif that governs the chapter.
In context
1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: 2A dire vision is declared to me: 3Therefore my body is filled with anguish. 4My heart falters; 5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, 6For this is what the Lord says to me: 7When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, 8Then the lookout shouted: 9Look, here come the riders, 10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor,