Isaiah 21:10

Isaiah 21:10

8 ¹Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord!
I stand continually on the ^awatchtower in the daytime;
I have sat at my post every night.

9 And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!”
Then he answered and said,
^a“Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
And ^ball the carved images of her gods
He has broken to the ground.”

10 ^aOh, my threshing and the grain of my floor!
That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

Proclamation Against Edom

11 ^aThe¹ burden against Dumah.
He calls to me out of ^bSeir,
“Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?”

12 The watchman said,
“The morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
Return! Come back!”

Proclamation Against Arabia

13 ^aThe¹ burden against Arabia.
In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,
O you traveling companies ^bof Dedanites.

14 O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
Bring water to him who is thirsty;
With their bread they met him who fled.

15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,
From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

16 For thus the Lord has said to me: “Within a year, ^aaccording to the year of a hired man, all the glory of ^bKedar will fail;

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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my threshing—that is, my people (the Jews) trodden down by Babylon.

corn of my floor—Hebrew, "my son of the floor," that is, my people, treated as corn laid on the floor for threshing; implying, too, that by affliction, a remnant (grain) would be separated from the ungodly (chaff) [MAURER]. HORSLEY translates, "O thou object of my unremitting prophetic pains." See Isaiah 28:27-28. Some, from Jeremiah 51:33, make Babylon the object of the threshing; but Isaiah is plainly addressing his countrymen, as the next words show, not the Babylonians.

One out of Seir asks, What of the night? Is there a hope of the dawn of deliverance? Isaiah replies, The morning is beginning to dawn (to us); but night is also coming (to you). Compare Psalms 137:7. The Hebrew captives would be delivered, and taunting Edom punished. If the Idumean wish to ask again, he may do so; if he wishes an answer of peace for his country, then let him "return (repent), come" [BARNES].

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