Isaiah 21:11 Cross References - Thomson

¹¹ The vision concerning Idumea. TO me one calleth from Seir, "Guard ye the fortifications, "

¹⁴ and Masma and Duma and Masse

³ Now Jacob had sent messengers before him to his brother Esau, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom,

¹⁸ And Edom shall be an inheritance, And Esau, his enemy, shall be a heritage. Though Israel hath done valiantly;

⁵ You must not come to battle with them; for I will not give you a foot of their land, because I have given mount Seir to the children of Esau for a possession.

³⁰ Masma, Iduma, Masse, Chondan, Thaiman,

⁷ Remember, Lord, the children of Edom; who in the day of Jerusalem said, Rase! Rase! down to its foundations!

⁶ Because thus the Lord said to me, "Go set a watchman for thyself and proclaim what thou seest."

¹ Attend O nations, and hearken ye chiefs. Let the earth hear and the inhabitants thereof; The World and the people who are therein ² Because the wrath of the Lord is against all the nations, and his anger against this number of them to destroy them and deliver them up to slaughter; ³ therefore their wounded and dead shall be cast out, and the stench of them shall ascend; and the mountains shall be drenched with their blood; ⁴ and all the powers of the heavens shall waste away; and the heaven shall be rolled up like a scroll and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine and as leaves fall from a fig tree. ⁵ [J] My sword hath drunk deep in the heaven; behold it shall come down on Idumea and on the people justly doomed to destruction. ⁶ [p] The sword of the Lord hath been glutted with blood; it is pampered with suet; with the blood of he; goats and lambs, and with the suet of goats and rams. Because there is a sacrifice for the Lord in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea; ⁷ therefore the fatlings shall fall with them, namely the rams and the bulls. And the land shall be drenched with blood, and glutted with their suet. ⁸ For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year for a judicial retribution to Sion: ⁹ and its torrents shall be turned into pitch, and its land into sulphur. And its land shall be like pitch burning day and night, ¹⁰ and which shall not be extinguished: for a long time the smoke of it shall ascend. During its generation it shall be desolate. ¹¹ And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell. ¹² The chiefs of it shall be no more; for its kings and its nobles shall be for destruction. ¹³ And in their cities shall spring up brakes; and brambles shall be its fortresses: and they shall be cots for Sirens, and for the ostrich's court. ¹⁴ And demons shall meet onocentaurs; and bellow one to the other. Onocentaurs shall there enjoy repose having found for themselves a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the porcupine hath made its nest; and the land hath safely kept its young. There the deer have assembled and seen each other's face. ¹⁶ I counted them and there is not one of them lost. They have not had occasion to seek each other: for the Lord hath issued orders to them; and his spirit hath brought them together. ¹⁷ And he will himself cast the lots for them, his hand hath meted the place for them to feed. For a long time you shall inherit it. [c] For generations of generations let them rest therein.

¹ [c] Who is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty! [M] I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation. ² [c] Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine vat? ³ [M] I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth. ⁴ For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand. ⁵ When I looked and there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then mine own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was roused, ⁶ and I trampled them down in mine anger and shed their blood on the earth.

¹⁷ And the king asked him privately to tell him whether there was a message from the Lord. And Jeremias said, There is. Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

⁷ Respecting Idumea. THUS said the Lord, There is no more any wisdom in Thaiman. Counsel is perished from the prudent. Wisdom is fled from them. ⁸ Their place hath been led into error. [p] O inhabitants of Daidan! retire to a deep settlement for he hath brought on calamities. [J] I brought them on him at the time when I visited him. ⁹ Because grape gatherers are come, who will not leave thee a gleaning. Like thieves by night they will lay to their hands. ¹⁰ Because I plundered Esau and discovered their hidden stores; They could not be concealed, they were destroyed. ¹¹ [p] By means of the hand of his brother my neighbour, there is indeed no place for thine orphan to be left that it may live. [J] But I will cause it to live. In me the widows have trusted. ¹² Because they [said the Lord] who had a law not to drink the cup, drank it; thou therefore shalt not escape unpunished. ¹³ For by myself I have sworn saith the Lord, thou shalt be a desolation and a reproach and a curse in this country and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. ¹⁴ [p] I have heard a report from the Lord. He hath sent messengers to the nations, [saying] assemble and come against her; arise for battle. ¹⁵ [J] I have made thee little among the nations, very contemptible among men. ¹⁶ Thine insolency hath entrapped thee; the wantonness of thy heart destroyed the holes of rocks. It took possession of a strong, lofty mountain. Because like an eagle thou hast built thy nest high; thence I will pull thee down: ¹⁷ and Idumea shall be a desolation. Every passenger shall express for it the sound of pity. ¹⁸ As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorra and the neighbouring cities, said the Lord Almighty, no man shall abide there, nor shall a son of man dwell there. ¹⁹ Behold they shall be like the lion which must go up from the swelling of Jordan to Aitham. For I will speedily drive them from that place. Therefore set ye chosen warriors against it. ²⁰ Because who is like me? Or who can withstand me? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me? Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord which he hath taken against Idumea, and the determination he hath come to against the inhabitants of Thaiman: Let all but the tenderest of the flock be destroyed; let all but a resting place for them be made a desolation. ²¹ [p] At the sound of their fall the earth trembled, so that the roaring of the sea was not heard. ²² Behold he will take a view like an eagle, and expand his wings against her fortifications; and the heart of the valiant men of Idumea shall be on that day like the heart of a woman in travail.

¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against the mountain of Seir, and prophesy against it ³ and say to it, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against thee, mountain of Seir; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and make thee a desert and thou shalt be desolate. ⁴ And I will make a devastation among thy cities, and thou shalt be a desert and shalt know that I am the Lord. ⁵ Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy and didst deceitfully lie in wait for the house of Israel; hast been a sword in the hand of enemies, in the time of revolt, in their last extremities; ⁶ therefore as I live, saith the Lord, Lord, as thou hast sinned unto blood, blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ And I will make the mountain of Seir an entire desert; and I will destroy from it men and cattle, ⁸ and fill with the wounded thy hills and thy vallies: and in all thy plains, the victims of the sword shall fall in thee. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall no more be inhabited, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because thou saidst, "The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I will possess them, though the Lord is there." ¹¹ Therefore, as I live saith the Lord, I will deal with thee according to thine enmity, and be made known to thee, when I judge thee; ¹² and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the sound of thy revilings; because thou saidst, "The waste mountains of Israel are given us to be devoured, ¹³ "and didst utter swelling words against me with thy mouth: I heard them: therefore thus saith the Lord, to the joy of the whole land I will make thee a desert. ¹⁴ Thou mountain of Seir shalt be a desert; and all Idumea shall be destroyed; and thou shalt know that I the Lord am their God.

¹⁹ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea a scene of destruction, for the injuries done to the children of Juda; for their having shed innocent blood in their land:

⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, shall I not be averse from them? Because they captivated the captives of the Salamonites, to deliver them up to Idumea;

¹¹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Idumea, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because they pursued their brother with a sword, and violated a mother on the ground: he indeed to evidence his intention seized by force; he kept up his horror and his onset till he accomplished his purpose; ¹² therefore I will send a fire against Thaiman, and it shall consume the foundation of its walls.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea, [I heard the report from the Lord. When he sent a message to the nations. ² Arise and let us go up against it to battle.] ³ Behold I have made thee very small among the nations: thou art dishonoured in a high degree. The pride of thy heart puffed thee up, dwelling in the clefts of rocks. [Having made his habitation high he said in his heart, Who can bring me down to the ground?] ⁴ Though thou shouldst soar aloft like an eagle, and make thy nest among the stars; thence I will pull thee down, saith the Lord. ⁵ If thieves come to thee, or robbers by night; in what place soever thou mayst be cast; would they not steal what would satisfy them? And if grape gatherers came to thee, would they leave no gleaning? ⁶ How Esau hath been searched! are even his hidden stores left? ⁷ They have driven thee to the borders. All the men in league with thee, have risen up against thee. Thy men of peace prevailed against thee. They laid snares under thee. They have no understanding. ⁸ In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau. ⁹ And thy warriors from Thaiman shall be dismayed, that man may be removed from the mountain of Esau. ¹⁰ On account of the impious slaughter of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. ¹¹ From the day that thou didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivated his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them. ¹² But thou shouldst not have looked on thy brother's day in the day of strangers; nor rejoiced over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction; nor shouldst thou have vaunted in the day of affliction; ¹³ nor entered people's gates in the day of their distresses. Thou especially shouldst not have beheld their congregation in the day of their destruction, nor joined to fall on their army in the day of their defeat; ¹⁴ nor beset the passes to cut off such of them as were escaping; nor shouldst thou have hemmed in his fugitives, in a calamitous day. ¹⁵ Because the day of the Lord, against all the nations is near; as thou hast done so shall it be done to thee: thy dealings shall be returned on thy head. ¹⁶ For in the same manner as thou hast drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations shall be drunk up as wine. They shall be drunk up and swallowed down, and be as if they had never been.

² I have loved you, saith the Lord. But you said, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau the brother of Jacob? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob ³ and slighted Esau and made his borders a waste, and the houses of a desert his inheritance. ⁴ For should he say, "Idumea is overthrown, let us return and build up the waste cities. "Thus saith the Lord Almighty, "Let them build, but I will overturn. They shall indeed be surnamed The borders of iniquity and A people to whom the Lord hath ever been opposed."