Isaias 21:11
The burden of Duma calleth to me out of Seir: Watchman, what of the night? watchman, what of the night?
Challoner: DumaThat is, Idumea, or Edom.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Onus Duma. Ad me clamat ex Seir : Custos, quid de nocte ? custos, quid de nocte ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Τὸ ὅραμα τῆς Ἰδουμαίας. Πρὸς ἐμὲ καλεῖ παρὰ τοῦ Σηείρ Φυλάσσετε ἐπάλξεις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מַשָּׂ֖א דּוּמָ֑ה אֵלַי֙ קֹרֵ֣א מִשֵּׂעִ֔יר שֹׁמֵר֙ מַה מִלַּ֔יְלָה שֹׁמֵ֖ר מַה מִלֵּֽיל
Haydock's commentary
Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom. (Challoner)
It was a city of that country, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis. (St. Jerome)
Assaradon desolated Idumea the year following, ver. 16. The Jews absurdly apply to Rome what is said of Edom. (St. Jerome) (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.