Isaiah 21:12
Good News Translation
I answer, "Morning is coming, but night will come again. If you want to ask again, come back and ask."

New Revised Standard Version
The sentinel says: “Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.”

Contemporary English Version
From my guard post, I answered, "Morning will soon be here, but night will return. If you want to know more, come back later."

New American Bible
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, and again night. If you will ask, ask; come back again.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.

the morning

Isaiah 17:14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

Jeremiah 50:27 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Ezekiel 7:5-7,10,12 Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come. . . .

if

Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Jeremiah 42:19-22 This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this day. . . .

Exodus 14:1-6 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Acts 2:37,38 Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren? . . .

Acts 17:19,20 And taking him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: May we know what this new doctrine is, which thou speakest of? . . .

Acts 17:30-32 And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance. . . .

Context
An Oracle Concerning Edom
11The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night? 12The watchman said: The morning cometh, also the night: if you seek, seek: return, come.
Cross References
Isaiah 21:11
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?

Isaiah 21:13
The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim.

Obadiah 1:1
And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Isaiah 21:11
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