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Isaiah 21:12

The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if all of you will enquire, enquire all of you: return, come.

Updated King James Version

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

13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall all of you lodge, O all of you travelling companies of Dedanim.

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Cross References

Isaiah 17:14And behold at evening-time trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Jeremiah 42:19The LORD has said concerning you, O all of you remnant of Judah; Go all of you not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

Ezekiel 7:5Thus says the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, has come.

Ezekiel 7:12The time has come, the day draws 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, says the Lord GOD. Repent, 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 to the rest of the apostles, Men and 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 →

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