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burden. The sixth of the seven burdens.
Dumah = Edom. An abbreviated form of fuller name "Idumea" (Isa_34:5. Eze_35:15; Eze_36:5. Mar_3:8).
Dumah = silence, prophetic of its end.
Seir. The inheritance of Esau (or Edom).
what of the night? = how far is it in the night? Note the Figure of speech Epizeuxis. Repeated in an abbreviated form thus: Hebrew. shomer mah-millayelah? shomer ma-milleyl ? = how far gone is the night? how far gone the night? This is Edom's inquiry.