Isaiah 21:11

The burden of Dumah. Unto me is [one] calling from Seir 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

Young's Literal Translation

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

10O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'

12The watchman hath said, 'Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'

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Cross References

Genesis 25:14and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,

Genesis 32:4and commandeth them, saying, 'Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau: Thus said thy servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and I tarry until now;

Deuteronomy 2:5ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the sole of a foot; for a possession to Esau I have given mount Seir.

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

Isaiah 21:6For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'

Isaiah 34:5For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.

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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