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Isaiah 21:11

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A prophecy against Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

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

He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. “Tear it down,” they cried, “tear it down to its foundations!”

The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”

The watchman replies, “Morning is coming, but also the night. If you would ask, then ask; and come back yet again.”

This is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

Then King Zedekiah sent for him and had him brought to the palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there any word from the Lord?” “Yes,” Jeremiah replied, “you will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.”

I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But you said, ‘We will not listen.’

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so,

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Gaza, even for four, I will not relent. Because she took captive whole communities and sold them to Edom,

Edom will be conquered; Seir, his enemy, will be conquered, but Israel will grow strong.

Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.




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