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12 The watchman says,

“Morning comes,
    and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
    come back again.”[a]

Oracle against Arabia

13 An oracle concerning[b] Arabia:

You will spend the night in the thicket in a desert-plateau,[c]
    caravans of Dedanites.
14 When you happen to meet[d] the thirsty, bring water.
    Inhabitants of the land of Tema came to meet the fugitive with his bread.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:12 Literally “return come”
  2. Isaiah 21:13 Literally “in”
  3. Isaiah 21:13 The Hebrew for “in a desert-plateau” is the same as for “concerning Arabia” in the preceding line
  4. Isaiah 21:14 Literally “Toward encountering”