Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The watchman answered, "The morning cometh, and so doth the night. If ye will ask any question, then ask it, return and come again."
New American Standard Bible
“Morning comes but also night.
If you would inquire, inquire;
Come back again.”
King James Version
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
Holman Bible
“Morning has come, and also night.
If you want to ask, ask!
Come back again.”
International Standard Version
The watchman replies: "Morning is coming, but also the night. If you want to ask, then ask; come back again.'"
A Conservative Version
The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night. If ye will inquire, inquire ye; turn ye back, come.
American Standard Version
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.
Amplified
The watchman says,
“The morning comes [only briefly], but also [comes] the night [of Babylonian oppression].
If you would ask [of me then], ask [again, if Edom really wishes to know];
Come back again.”
Bible in Basic English
The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again.
Darby Translation
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire; return, come.
Julia Smith Translation
The watch said, I will mark out morning, and also night; if ye will seek, seek ye: turn back, come.
King James 2000
The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will inquire, inquire you: return, come.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[The] watchman says, "Morning comes, and also [the] night. If you will inquire, inquire; {come back again}."
Modern King James verseion
The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire, and come again.
NET Bible
The watchman replies, "Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again."
New Heart English Bible
The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
The Emphasized Bible
Said the watchman, There cometh a morning. But also a night, - If ye will enquire, enquire, ye - Come, again!
Webster
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
World English Bible
The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
Youngs Literal Translation
The watchman hath said, 'Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'
Themes
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Prophecy concerning seir
Interlinear
Shamar
Layil
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 21:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Regarding Dumah
11 The heavy burden of Dumah. He calleth unto me, out of of Seir, "Watchman, what hast thou espied by night? Watchman, what hast thou espied by night?" 12 The watchman answered, "The morning cometh, and so doth the night. If ye will ask any question, then ask it, return and come again." 13 The heavy burden upon Arabia. At even ye shall abide in the wood, in the way toward Dedanim.
Cross References
Isaiah 17:14
At even, behold, there is trouble: yet in the morning it is gone with them. This is the portion of them that oppress us, and the heritage of them that rob us.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the ungodly man forsake his ways and the unrighteous his imaginations, and turn again unto the LORD: so shall he be merciful unto him; and to our God, for he is ready to forgive.
Jeremiah 42:19-22
The LORD forbiddeth you, O ye remnant of Judah, that ye shall not go in to Egypt. And forget not that I have warned you earnestly this day else shall ye beguile yourselves.
Jeremiah 50:27
They shall slay all her mighty soldiers, and put them to death. Woe be unto them, for the day and the time of their visitation is at hand.
Ezekiel 7:5-7
"Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, one misery and plague shall come after another.
Ezekiel 7:10
Behold: the day is here, the day is come, the hour is run out, the rod flourisheth, willfulness waxeth green,
Ezekiel 7:12
The time cometh, the day draweth nigh. Whoso buyeth, let him not rejoice: he that selleth, let him not be sorry. For why? Trouble shall come in the midst of all rest:
Ezekiel 14:1-6
There resorted unto me certain of the elders of Israel, and sat down by me.
Ezekiel 18:30-32
"As for me, I will judge every man, according to his ways, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD God. Wherefore be converted, and turn you clean from all your wickedness, so shall there no sin do you harm.
Acts 2:37-38
When they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts, and said unto Peter, and unto the other apostles, "Ye men and brethren, what shall we do?"
Acts 17:19-20
And they took him, and brought him into Mars Street, saying, "May we not know what is this new doctrine whereof thou speakest?
Acts 17:30-32
And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but now he biddeth all men everywhere to repent,