Isaiah 21:11

A declaration about Dumah. 1 One calls to me from Seir, 1 “Watchman, what is left of the night? 1 Watchman, what is left of the night?” 1

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

In Context

10My threshed and winnowed ones, children of my threshing floor! 1 What I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, 1 the God of Israel, I have declared to you. 1

12The watchman said, “The morning comes and also the night. 1 If you want to ask, then ask; and come back again.” 1

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Cross References

Genesis 25:14Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Genesis 32:4He commanded them, saying, “This is what you will say to my master Esau: This is what your servant Jacob says: 'I have been staying with Laban, and have delayed my return until now.

Deuteronomy 2:5not to fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not even enough for the sole of a foot to step on; for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

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

Isaiah 21:6For this is what the Lord said to me, 1 “Go, post a watchman; he must report what he sees. 1

Isaiah 34:5For when my sword will have drunk its fill in heaven; 1 look, it will now come down on Edom, on the people I am setting apart for destruction. 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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