Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.
Darby Translation
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In Context
13The burden against Arabia. In the forest of Arabia shall ye lodge, [ye] caravans of Dedanites.
Cross References
Isaiah 17:14behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Jeremiah 42:19Jehovah hath said concerning you, the remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
Ezekiel 7:5Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil! behold, it is come.
Ezekiel 7:12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your snare.
Acts 2:37And having heard [it] they were pricked in heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, What shall we do, brethren?
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 →