Isaiah 21:11
The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
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Genesis 25:14and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Genesis 32:4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau, Thus says thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.
Deuteronomy 2:5Do not contend with them, for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
1 Chronicles 1:30Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
Isaiah 21:6For thus has LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Isaiah 34:5For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was… Read the whole commentary →