The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 21:12 in context
Isaiah 21:9–15
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Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
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You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
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The burden of Dumah.
One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”
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The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
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The burden on Arabia.
You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.
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They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
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For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
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