Isaiah 21:12
The watchman replies,“Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again.”
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- Isa 17:14 : 14 In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
- Isa 55:7 : 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
- Jer 42:19-22 : 19 “The LORD has told you people who remain in Judah,‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be very sure of this: I warn you here and now. 20 You are making a fatal mistake. For you sent me to the LORD your God and asked me,‘Pray to the LORD our God for us. Tell us what the LORD our God says and we will do it.’ 21 This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the LORD your God by doing what he sent me to tell you. 22 So now be very sure of this: You will die from war, starvation, or disease in the place where you want to go and live.”
- Jer 50:27 : 27 Kill all her soldiers! Let them be slaughtered! They are doomed, for their day of reckoning has come, the time for them to be punished.”
- Ezek 7:5-7 : 5 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: A disaster– a one-of-a-kind disaster– is coming! 6 An end comes– the end comes! It has awakened against you! Look, it is coming! 7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.
- Ezek 7:10 : 10 “Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!
- Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.
- Ezek 14:1-6 : 1 Well-Deserved Judgment Then some men from Israel’s elders came to me and sat down in front of me. 2 The LORD’s message came to me: 3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me? 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When anyone from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the LORD am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. 5 I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’ 6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.
- Ezek 18:30-32 : 30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity. 31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
- Acts 2:37-38 : 37 The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?” 38 Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 17:19-20 : 19 So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying,“May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming? 20 For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean.”
- Acts 17:30-32 : 30 Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.” 32 Now when they heard about the resurrection from the dead, some began to scoff, but others said,“We will hear you again about this.”
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- Isa 21:10-112 verses85%
10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, I have reported to you.
11 Bad News for Seir This is an oracle about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
- Isa 21:6-83 verses73%
6 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots, teams of horses, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.”
8 Then the guard cries out:“On the watchtower, O Lord, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.
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13 The Lord Will Judge Arabia This is an oracle about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans.
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8 The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:
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6 Yes, a time is coming when watchmen will call out on the mountains of Ephraim,“Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the LORD our God!”’”
- 2 Sam 18:25-262 verses68%
25 So the watchman called out and informed the king. The king said,“If he is by himself, he brings good news.” The runner came ever closer.
26 Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper,“There is another man running by himself.” The king said,“This one also is bringing good news.”
- Ezek 7:6-72 verses68%
6 An end comes– the end comes! It has awakened against you! Look, it is coming!
7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.
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4 They will say,‘Prepare to do battle against it! Come on! Let’s attack it at noon!’ But later they will say,‘Woe to us! For the day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long.
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12 These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
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9 in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
- Zech 14:6-72 verses67%
6 On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.
7 It will happen in one day(a day known to the LORD); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.
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21 The LORD’s message came to me:
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1 I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.
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6 I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!
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19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.
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14 In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
- Mark 13:35-362 verses66%
35 Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return– whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn–
36 or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.
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10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said,“These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk about on the earth.”
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11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
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20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him,“If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”
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6 Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.
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6 But at midnight there was a shout,‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’
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10 So get up early in the morning along with the servants of your lord who have come with you. When you get up early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough to see, leave.”
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11 The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.
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5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
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26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light.
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12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,
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29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts–
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21 “How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”
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1 The Sword of Judgment(21:6) The LORD’s message came to me:
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13 The Love Song and DanceThe Lover to His Beloved:(7:1) Turn, turn, O Perfect One! Turn, turn, that I may stare at you!The Beloved to Her Lover: Why do you gaze upon the Perfect One like the dance of the Mahanaim?
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19 The LORD’s message came to Jeremiah another time.
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6 They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
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17 The LORD said,“I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying:‘Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!’” But they said,“We will not pay attention!”
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1 The Lord Will Judge Babylon This is an oracle about the wilderness by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the wilderness, from a land that is feared.
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20 Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
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38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves!
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13 In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
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5 “If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted! If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor! But you will be totally destroyed!
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14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
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8 Listen, your watchmen shout; in unison they shout for joy, for they see with their very own eyes the LORD’s return to Zion.
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3 when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,