The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 21:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Go, set a watchman. The event is not to be immediate, it is to be watched for; and Isaiah is not to watch himself, but to set the watchman. Moreover, the watchman waits long before he sees anything (verse 8).

These unusual features of the narrative seem to mark a remote, not a near, accomplishment of the prophecy.

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