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A Message about Dumah

11 A message[a] concerning Dumah.

“Someone is calling to me from Seir:
    ‘Watchman, what is left of the night?[b]
        Watchman, what is left of the night?’[c]
12 The watchman replies:
    ‘Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you want to ask, then ask;
    come back again.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 Lit. An oracle
  2. Isaiah 21:11 Or What time of night?
  3. Isaiah 21:11 Or What time of night?

Oracle regarding Dumah

11 The oracle of Dumah:

One is calling to me from Seir,

“Watchman, what of[a] the night?
    Watchman, what of[b] the night?”

12 The watchman says,

“Morning comes,
    and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
    come back again.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:11 Literally “from”
  2. Isaiah 21:11 Literally “from”
  3. Isaiah 21:12 Literally “return come”