Isaiah 21:11
Good News Translation
This is a message about Edom. Someone calls to me from Edom, "Sentry, how soon will the night be over? Tell me how soon it will end."

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

Contemporary English Version
This is a message about Dumah: From the country of Seir, someone shouts to me, "Guard, how much longer before daylight?"

New American Bible
Oracle on Dumah: They call to me from Seir, “Watchman, how much longer the night? Watchman, how much longer the night?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Dumah.

Genesis 25:14 And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

1 Chronicles 1:30 And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad, and Thema,

me out

Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it.

Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save. . . .

Numbers 24:18 And he shall possess Idumea: the inheritance of Seir shall come to their enemies, but Israel shall do manfully.

Deuteronomy 2:5 Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Jeremiah 49:7-22 Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable. . . .

Ezekiel 35:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.

Amos 1:6,11,12 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom. . . .

Obadiah 1:1 And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Malachi 1:2-4 I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob, . . .

what

Isaiah 21:6 For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.

Jeremiah 37:17 And Jeremiah said to king Sedecias: In what have I offended against thee, or thy servants, or thy people, that thou hast cast me into prison?

Context
An Oracle Concerning Edom
11The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?12The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:14
And Masma, and Duma, and Massa,

Genesis 32:3
And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:

Songs 3:3
The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

Jeremiah 6:17
And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.

Obadiah 1:1
And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Isaiah 21:10
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