Holy Scripture

Isaiah 21:12

A church father on this verse
“(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…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

12I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest inquire, inquire, and dwell by me.

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In context

10Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts which the God of Israel has declared to us.

11The vision of Edom. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.

— Isaiah 21:12 —

13Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dedan.

14Ye that dwell in the country of Tema, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

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