Isaiah 21:11
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the eight? watchman, what of the night?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
Cross References
Genesis 25:14And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,
Genesis 32:4And he commanded them, saying: Thus shall ye speak to my lord Esau: Thus saith thy brother Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and have been with him until this day.
Deuteronomy 2:5Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.
1 Chronicles 1:30And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad, and Thema,
Isaiah 21:6For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
Isaiah 34:5For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto 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 →