Isaiah 21:11
The Vision of Idumea. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
12I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.
Cross References
Genesis 25:14and Masma, and Duma, and Masse,
Genesis 32:4And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom.
Deuteronomy 2:5Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.
1 Chronicles 1:30Masma, Iduma, Masse, Chondan, Thæman,
Isaiah 21:6For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.
Isaiah 34:5My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
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 →