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Isaiah 21:12

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

In Context

11The 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

13The massa (burden) concerning Arabia: 1 In the ya'ar (forest) of Arabia shall ye encamp 1 O ye caravans of Dedanim. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 17:14And hinei at erev, terror; 1 and before boker, he [that terrorizes] is no more. 1 This is the chelek of them that loot us, 1 and the goral (lot) of them that plunder us.

Jeremiah 42:19Hashem hath said concerning you, O ye she'erit Yehudah; Go ye not into Mitzrayim; know certainly that I have warned you, this day.

Ezekiel 7:5Thus saith Adonoi Hashem; A ra'ah, a singular ra'ah, hinei, has come.

Ezekiel 7:12The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the koneh (buyer) rejoice, nor the mokher (seller) mourn; for charon (wrath) is upon all the multitude thereof.

Ezekiel 18:30Therefore I will judge you, O Bais Yisroel, every one according to the drakhim of him, saith Adonoi Hashem. Make teshuvah, and turn yourselves from all your peysha'im, so avon shall not be your michshol (stumbling block, downfall).

Acts 2:37And when they heard this, they were pierced with conviction in their levavot, and they said to Kefa and to the other of Moshiachʼs Shlichim, Achim, what shall we do?

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 →

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