Isaiah 21:11 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹¹ The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ The mournful, inspired prediction (a burden to be lifted up) concerning Dumah (Edom): One calls to me from Seir (Edom), Watchman, what of the night? [How far is it spent? How long till morning?] Guardian, what of the night?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Common English Bible

¹¹ An oracle about Dumah. Someone is calling to me from Seir: “Guard, how long is the night? Guard, how long is the night?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ The burden of Dumah, cried out to me from Seir: "Watchman, how goes the night? Watchman, how goes the night?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

Isaiah 21:11 Cross References

Genesis 25:14

Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Genesis 32:3

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

Genesis 32:4

instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;

1 Chronicles 1:30

Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

Psalm 137:7

Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Raze it, raze it! Down to its foundations!”

Song of Solomon 3:3

The watchmen found me, as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

Isaiah 21:12

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

Isaiah 21:6

For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman, let him announce what he sees.

Jeremiah 37:17

King Zedekiah sent for him, and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 6:17

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not give heed.’

Ezekiel 25:12

“Thus says the Lord God: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance upon them,

Ezekiel 33:7

“So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.

Joel 3:19

“Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Amos 1:6

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.

Numbers 24:18

Edom shall be dispossessed, Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed, while Israel does valiantly.

Deuteronomy 2:5

do not contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

Joshua 15:52

Arab, Dumah, Eshan,