Isaiah 21:11
This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
Note Dumah is a wordplay on Edom, meaning silence.
Note Seir is another name for Edom.
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Dumah
- Dumah is probably the same as Dumatha, a city of Arabia, mentioned by Stephanus, and the modern Dumah and Dumathalgandel, on the borders of Arabia and Syria, in a rocky valley. The Edomites, says Bp. Lowth, as well as Jews, were subdued by the Babylonians. They enquire of the prophet how long their subjection is to last; he intimates that the Jews should be delivered from their captivity; not so the Edomites. "The morning cometh, and also the night."
- Genesis 25:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30
- me out
- Isaiah 34:1–17; Isaiah 63:1–6; Numbers 24:18; Deuteronomy 2:5; Psalm 137:7; Jeremiah 49:7–22; Ezekiel 35:1–15; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:6, 11, 12; Obadiah 1:1–16; Malachi 1:2–4
- what
- Isaiah 21:6; Jeremiah 37:17