Isaiah 21:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² The sentinel says: “Morning comes and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The watchman said, The morning comes, but also the night. [Another time, if Edom earnestly wishes to know] if you will inquire [of me], inquire; return, come again.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

Common English Bible

¹² The guard said, “Morning has come, but it is still night. If you must inquire, inquire; come back again.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The watchman said: "Morning approaches with the night. If you are seeking: seek, and convert, and approach."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night. If you seek, seek: return, come.

Isaiah 21:12 Cross References

Isaiah 17:14

At evening time, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who despoil us and the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah 21:11

The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Sentinel, what of the night? Sentinel, what of the night?”

Isaiah 21:13

The oracle concerning the desert plain. In the scrub of the desert plain you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 50:27

Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Alas for them, their day has come, the time of their punishment!

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 7:10

See, the day! See, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed; pride has budded.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against it for battle!”