Isaiah 21:12 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 21:12

The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

BSB

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ASV

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

KJV

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

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Commentary

5 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

520. Second, the refusal of their petition is set out: and the watchman, namely, God, said: the morning comes, the time of liberation for the Jews, also the night of captivity still remains for the Idumeans: but over them only was spread a heavy night …

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 11, 12.) Oracle concerning Dumah. One calls to me from Seir: 'Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?' The watchman says: 'Morning comes, and also the night. Seek if you will, inquire if you will, come.' For Dumah they set seventy idols, not over the entire Idumean province, but in a certain region that extends towards the south and is twenty miles distant from the city of Palestine, which is now called Eleutheropolis. Near it are the mountains of Seir, taking their name from Seir, the hairy and shaggy one, that is, Esau.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The watchman said - Or rather “saith;” indicating that this is the answer which the prophet returned to the inquiry from Idumea. The morning cometh - There are signs of approaching day. The ‘morning’ here is an emblem of prosperity; as the light of the morning succeeds to the darkness of the night. This refers to the deliverance from the captivity of Babylon, and is to be supposed as having been spoken near the time when that captivity was at an end - or nearly at break of day after the long night of their bondage.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
שֹׁמֵ֔ר	sho.Mer	[the] watchman	H8104 →
אָתָ֥ה	'a.Tah	it will come	H857 →
בֹ֖קֶר	Vo.ker	morning	H1242 →
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
לָ֑יְלָה	La.ye.lah	night	H3915 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
תִּבְעָי֥וּן	tiv.'a.Yun	you will enquire !	H1158 →
בְּעָ֖יוּ	be.'A.yu	enquire	H1158 →
שֻׁ֥בוּ	Shu.vu	return	H7725 →
אֵתָֽיוּ׃ ס	'e.Ta.yu	come	H857 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely…
leads to
- Proverbs 28:13
  He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- James 4:8–10
  Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- Ezekiel 18:21–23
  But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Isaiah 44:22
  I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Luke 15:10
  In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”
Through
Isaiah 17:14
In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
leads to
- 2 Kings 19:35
  And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the…
- Proverbs 22:23
  for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
- Ezekiel 39:10
  They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered…

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About Isaiah