Today we have a couple of oracles. Poetic, metaphorical, allusive and therefore not easy to fully understand.
Again, it's all to do with the political "churn" of rising and falling kingdoms, with that ever-pervading sense that God is behind and beyond all the machinations, grimly watching them fail, all of them.
There is a watchman. Maybe Isaiah is the watchman, maybe he isn't. But he's scared by what he sees. He's not scared by the mighty army coming towards him, he's scared by what is going to happen to them. This war machine is going to be taken apart, brutally, efficiently, ruthlessly.
Watchmen long for the morning. But it is still night, and in the reign of darkness, destruction is king.
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