Isaiah 21:11
The burden of Dumah. [One] is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
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In Context
12The watchman has said, “Morning has come, and also night, || If you inquire, inquire, return, come.”
Cross References
Genesis 25:14and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Genesis 32:4and commands them, saying, “Thus you say to my lord, to Esau, Thus said your servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and I linger until now;
Deuteronomy 2:5you do not strive with them, for I do not give [any] of their land to you—even the treading of the sole of a foot; I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
1 Chronicles 1:30Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
Isaiah 21:6For thus said the Lord to me: “Go, station the watchman, || Let him declare that which he sees.”
Isaiah 34:5For My sword was soaked in the heavens, || Behold, it comes down on Edom, || On the people of My curse for 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 →