12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
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And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: …
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? …
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-12)This prophecy concerning Dumah is very short, and withal dark and hard to be understood. Some think that Dumah is a part of Arabia, and that the inhabitants descended from Dumah the sixth son of Ishmael, as those of Kedar ( Isa. 21:16 , 17 ) from Ishmael’s second son, Gen. 25:13 , 14 . Others, because Mount Seir is here mentioned, by Dumah understand Idumea, the country of the Edomites. Some of Is…
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