Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye; turn ye back, come.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia ye shall lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Cross References
Isaiah 17:14At eventide, behold, terror, [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
Jeremiah 42:19LORD has spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have testified to you this day.
Ezekiel 7:5Thus says lord LORD: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes.
Ezekiel 7:12The time has come; the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all the multitude of it.
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, says lord LORD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Acts 2:37Now having heard this, they were pierced in the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brothers, what will we do?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:12-13
The Watchman Interrogated. ( b. c. 714.) 11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. This prophecy concerning Dumah is very short, and withal dark and hard to be understood. Some think that Dumah is a part of Arabia, and that the inhabitants descended from Dumah the sixth son of Ishmael, as those of Kedar ( v. 16, 17 ) from Ishmael's second… Read the whole commentary →