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Isaiah chapter 62 verses six and seven.

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen, all the day and all the night they shall never be silent you

who put the Lord in remembrance take no rest and give him no rest until he

establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.

What a passage! What a picture! Did you hear that, on your walls of Jerusalem?

I've set Watchman.

We've prayed using this imagery before,

this watchman on a wall looking out

from a city and surrounding areas so that if there's any attacking army coming,

the watchman would alert the people inside the city.

They're keeping watch on your walls of Jerusalem,

set watchmen all the day and all the night.

They shall never be silent.

So they're always alert. It would be disastrous if the watchman fell asleep in the middle of the night and an invading army came and attacked and destroyed the city because the watchman fell asleep.

So now you get to into verse six and in the beginning of verse seven.

You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest.

So that makes sense.

Watchmen on the walls, among God's people,

don't take any rest.

Like stay alert, be alert.

And so this is where verse 7 says,

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