Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Isaiah 21:11-17
Against Edom and Arabia
Against Edom and Arabia
Verse Isaiah 21:11. _THE BURDEN OF DUMAH_ - "The oracle concerning Dumah."] Pro דומה _Dumah_, Codex R. Meiri habet אדום _Edom_; and so the _Septuagint_, Vid. _Kimchi_ ad h. l. Biblia Michaelis, Halae,...
ANALYSIS OF Isaiah 21:11, Isaiah 21:12. - VISION 17. DUMAH, OR IDUMEA. This prophecy is very obscure. It comprises but two verses. When it was delivered, or on what occasion, or what was its design, i...
CHAPTER 21 The Burdens of the Desert of the Sea, of Dumah, and Arabia 1. _The burden of the desert of the sea (Babylon) (Isaiah 21:1)_ 2. _The burden of Dumah (Isaiah 21:11)_ 3. The burden upon Arabi...
ISAIAH 21:11 F. ORACLE ON EDOM. This is probably not by Isaiah. Date and authorship are uncertain. It is best regarded as by the author of Isaiah 21:1. It might be objected to an exilic date that the...
BURDEN. The sixth of the seven burdens. DUMAH. Edom. An abbreviated form of fuller name "Idumea" (Isaiah 34:5.Ezekiel 35:15; Ezekiel 36:5.Mark 3:8
_The burden of Dumah_ The best known place of this name is the _Dûmat el-Jendel_("rocky Dumah") of the Arabian geographers (mentioned in Genesis 25:14). It lay to the north of Tema (Isaiah 21:14) and...
The oracle on Edom. Isaiah 21:11 The prophet hears (whether in reality or in imagination it is impossible to say) an urgent cry from Seir, inquiring whether the night of distress is nearly over (Isai...
DISCOURSE: 887 PROFANE SCOFFERS INSTRUCTED Isaiah 21:11. _The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning c...
THE BURDEN OF DUMAH— The neighbouring nations insulting the people of God for the common calamities to which they were exposed together with them, though they boasted themselves to be the elect and fa...
b. EDOM AND ARABIA TEXT: Isaiah 21:11-17 11 The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? 12 The watchman said, The morning comet...
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? DUMAH - a tribe and region of Ishmael in Arabia (Genesis 25:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30), now...
SEIR] another name for Edom (Genesis 36:8; Deuteronomy 2:12)....
THE FATE OF EDOM An oracle concerning Edom, here symbolically called Dumah ('silence'), because of the silence and desolation in store for it. The prophecy, like that which follows, refers to a time...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 21 ENEMIES DESTROY BABYLON V1 A special message about Babylon that God gave to Isaia...
A very short message about Dumah, a small place in the desert, 300 miles south-east of *Jerusalem. Dumah was at an important cross-roads where routes from Babylon and Edom and Syria met. Merchants cou...
מַשָּׂ֖א דּוּמָ֑ה אֵלַי֙ קֹרֵ֣א מִ שֵּׂעִ֔יר...
In this chapter we have prophecies concerning Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia. With regard to Babylon, the prophet has seen the vision of the whirlwind sweeping against it, and so terrible is it that he is...
The burden of (o) Dumah. He calleth to me out of (p) Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? (o) Which was a city of the Ishmaelites and was so named by Dumah, (Genesis 25:14)...
_Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom. (Challoner) --- It was a city of that country, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis. (St. Jerome) --- Assaradon desolated Idumea the following year, ver. 16. The Jews absu...
The burden of Dumah is short, but expressive; a watchman is questioned by a man of Mount Seir, a region possessed by the Edomites, the children of Esau, what of the night? he repeats the inquiry, and...
_THE BURDEN OF DUMAH_ ‘Watchman, what of the night?… The morning cometh.’ Isaiah 21:11 Isaiah was pre-eminently the patriot-prophet of Judah. He was ever on his watch-tower guarding the movements o...
11._The burden of Dumah. _It is evident from Genesis 25:14, that this nation was descended from a son of Ishmael, to whom this name was given, and hence his posterity are called Dumeans. (70) The caus...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
THE BURDEN OF DUMAH,.... Whether this prophecy concerns the Edomites or Idumeans, or whether the Arabians, particularly the Dumean Arabians, is a question, since Dumah was a son of Ishmael, Genesis 2...
_The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?_ Ver. 11. _The burden of Dumah,_] _i.e., _ Of Idumea, _a_ or of the Edomites. For burden,...
_The burden of Dumah_ Or Idumea, as appears by the mention of mount _Seir_, which follows. This prophecy, “from the uncertainty of the occasion on which it was uttered, and from the brevity of the exp...
11,12 God's prophets and ministers are as watchmen in the city in a time of peace, to see that all is safe. As watchmen in the camp in time of war, to warn of the motions of the enemy. After a long s...
OF DUMAH; either, 1. Of a part of Arabia, so called from Dumah, one of Ishmael's race, GENESIS 25:14 1 CHRONICLES 1:30. Or rather, 2. Of Edom or Idumea, as seems most probable from the mention of Mou...
Isaiah 21:11 burden H4853 Dumah H1746 calls H7121 (H8802) Seir H8165 Watchman H8104 (H8802) night H3915 Watchman...
THE BURDEN OF DUMAH (EDOM) - (ISAIAH 21:11). In her fear at the news of the downfall of Babylon Edom cries to the only one who seems to be able to proclaim the future reliably, Isaiah, the prophet of...
CHAPTER 21 THE BURDENS ON THE WILDERNESS OF THE SEA, ON DUMAH AND ON ARABIA. We now come to the second five of the ten burdens. And here we pause to note the careful way in which the prophecy has been...
BURDEN (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 13:1). _...
Isaiah 21:11 The prophet appears to introduce himself as addressed in scorn by the people of the land which he is commissioned to warn. "Watchman, what of the night?" What new report of woe hast thou...
CONTENTS: Four burdens anticipating Sennacherib's invasion. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Neither the skill of archers nor the courage of mighty men can protect a people from the judgments of...
Isaiah 21:1. _The desert of the sea._ The army which invaded Babylon came not directly against it; but Cyrus made a circuitous route, and collected part of his army from the deserts and mountains towa...
_The burden of Dumah_ THE BURDEN OF DUMAH Like Moab, Edom had once formed part of David’s dominions, but in the days of disruption and weakness both had rebelled. What about Edom now? When Moab was...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:1 Five new oracles reveal God’s ruling and judging the wilderness by the sea (Isaiah 21:1), Dumah ...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:11 The second oracle of the second series (Isaiah 21:1) pictures prolonged darkness enveloping a frightened world....
THE BURDEN OF DUMAH Isaiah 21:11. _The burden of Dumah, &c._ There are three distinct prophecies in this chapter, and they are all termed _burdens_, as denoting heavy judgments. The first respects B...
A MOMENTOUS INQUIRY Isaiah 21:11. _Watchman, what of the night?_ Some calamity or sad moral condition is foreseen by the prophet. Moral evil is fitly compared to darkness. The term “night” is used to...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 21:1 THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT OF THE SEA. This is a short and somewhat vague, but highly poetic, "burden of Babylon" It is probably an earlier prophecy than...
Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 21. Isaiah begins this particular prophecy and addresses it to Babylon which was referred to as, The desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass (Isaiah 21:1)...
1 Chronicles 1:30; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:12; Amos 1:6; Deuteronomy 2:5;...
Dumah — Of Edom or Idumea. He — The people of Dumah, one of them in the name and by the appointment of the rest. Me — To the watchman: the prophet delivers his prophecy in the form of a dialogue betwe...