Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
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Isaiah 17:14At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Jeremiah 42:19The LORD hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day.
Ezekiel 7:5Thus saith the Lord GOD: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.
Ezekiel 7:12The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Acts 2:37Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, 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 →