Isaiah 21:11

The massa (burden) of Dumah: + 21:11 Edom 1 One calleth to me out of Se'ir, + 21:11 Edom 1 Shomer (watchman), what of the lailah? 1 Shomer, what of the lailah? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

In Context

10O my threshed, + 21:10 people and the grain of my goren (threshing floor); 1 that which I have heard of Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel, 1 have I declared unto you.

12The shomer said, The boker cometh, and also the lailah; 1 if ye will inquire, inquire ye; 1 shuvu (return), come.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:14And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

Genesis 32:4And Ya'akov sent malachim before him to Esav achiv unto Eretz Se'ir, the country of Edom.

Deuteronomy 2:5Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a regel (foot) breadth; because I have given Mt Se'ir unto Esav for a yerushah (possession, inheritance).

1 Chronicles 1:30Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Chadad, Tema,

Isaiah 21:6For thus hath Adonoi said unto me, 1 Go, post the metzapeh (watchman), 1 let him report what he seeth. 1

Isaiah 34:5For My cherev shall be satiated in Shomayim; hinei, 1 it shall come down upon Edom, 1 and shall descend on the Am (people) of My Cherem (ban of destruction) in mishpat. 1

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 →

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