Isaiah 21:14
Good News Translation
give water to the thirsty people who come to you. You people of the land of Tema, give food to the refugees.

New Revised Standard Version
Bring water to the thirsty, meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.

Contemporary English Version
to bring water for those who are thirsty. You people of Tema must bring food for the hungry refugees.

New American Bible
Meet the thirsty, bring them water, inhabitants of the land of Tema, greet the fugitives with bread.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

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Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

Tema

Genesis 25:15 Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

1 Chronicles 1:30 And Masma, and Duma, Massa, Hadad, and Thema,

Job 6:19 Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.

brought.

Isaiah 16:3,4 Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about. . . .

Judges 8:4-8 And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled. . . .

Proverbs 25:21 If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink:

Romans 12:20 But if the enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

1 Peter 4:9 Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

Context
A Prophecy Against Arabia
13The burden in Arabia. In the forest at evening you shall sleep, in the paths of Dedanim. 14Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.15For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.…
Cross References
Genesis 25:15
Hadar, and Thema, and Jethur, and Naphis, and Cedma.

Job 6:19
Consider the paths of Thema, the ways of Saba, and wait a little while.

Isaiah 21:13
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