Isaiah 21:12
I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
11The Vision of Idumea. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.
13Thou mayest lodge in the forest + 21:13 Heb. of Arabia.in the evening, or in the way of Dædan.
Cross References
Isaiah 17:14Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.
Jeremiah 42:19there shall never be wanting a man of the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand before my face while the earth remains.
Ezekiel 7:5Now I will pour out mine anger upon thee near at hand, and I will accomplish my wrath on thee: and I will judge thee for thy ways, and recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
Ezekiel 7:12The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.
Ezekiel 18:30I will judge you, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.
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 →