The title of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman comes from the King James Bible, Isaiah 21:6: “For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.” Lee’s longtime friend, Baptist minister and historian Wayne Flint, said that in this passage Isaiah is prophesizing about the downfall of Babylon. “Nelle (Harper Lee) probably likened Monroeville (her Alabama birthplace and the inspiration for fictional Maycomb) to Babylon. The Babylon of immoral voices, the hypocrisy,” “Somebody needs to be set as the watchman to identify what we need to do to get out of the mess.”