Isaiah 21:11

I received this message from Yahweh about Edom: Someone from Edom has been calling/shouting to me saying, “Watchman, how long will it be before the night is ended? [DOU]”

Translation for Translators

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

10My people in Judah, the army of Babylon has caused you to suffer greatly as though [MET] you were grain that was threshed and ◄winnowed/thrown up into the air for the wind to blow away the chaff►. But now I have told you what the Commander of the armies of angels the God whom we Israelis worship, told me about Babylon.

12I, the watchman, replied, “It will soon be morning, but after that, it will soon be night again. If you want to inquire again about what will happen in our country, come back and inquire again.”

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Cross References

Genesis 25:14Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Genesis 32:4He told them, “This is what I want you to say to Esau: 'I, Jacob, want to be your servant and I want you to be my master. I have been living with our uncle Laban, and I have stayed there until now.

Deuteronomy 2:5but do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you even a tiny bit [HYP] of their land. I have given that land to the descendants of Esau.

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

Isaiah 21:6Then Yahweh said to me, “Put a watchman on the wall of Jerusalem, and tell him to shout/proclaim what he sees.

Isaiah 34:5When Yahweh has finished his work of destroying objects in the sky, he will punish the people of Edom, that people-group that he has said must be destroyed/exterminated.

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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