Isaiah 21:14
12 The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
13 This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
15 For they flee from the sword— the sword that is drawn— from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.
16 For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Ut til de tørste fører de vann; de som bor i Temas land, kommer de flyktende i møte med brød;
- OTB
- bring vann til de tørste; dere innbyggere i Tema, møt flyktningene med brød.
- B1930
- Ut til de tørste fører de vann; de som bor i Temas land, kommer de flyktende i møte med brød;
- BSB
- Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
- KJV
- The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
- WEB
- They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
- ASV
- Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.
- DARBY
- Bring ye water to meet the thirsty! The inhabitants of the land of Tema come forth with their bread for him that fleeth.
- BLB
- to meet the thirsty one. Bring water, O dwellers of the land of Tema, with his bread meet the one fleeing.
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Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.
Les i sammenhengGenesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Les i sammenhengRomans 12:20
On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Les i sammenhengProverbs 25:21
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
Les i sammenhengJudges 8:4–8
Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.
Les i sammenhengIsaiah 16:3–4
“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
Les i sammenheng1 Peter 4:9
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
Les i sammenheng1 Chronicles 1:30
Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
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