it watcheth Rather: it awaketh for thee. The word forms an alliteration with "end" (Ḳêç, heḳîç), and suggests that the vengeance slumbering long is now ready to fall on them. A similar paronomasia in Amos 8:2, between "end" and "summer fruit," and in Jeremiah 1:11, between "almond tree" and "be wakeful."

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