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Isaiah 21:11

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The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

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Verse 11. Duma. That is, Idumea, or Edom. Challoner.—It was a city of that country, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis. Saint Jerome—Assaradon desolated Idumea the following year. verse 16. The Jews absurdly apply to Rome what is said of Edom. Saint Jerome Calmet.

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