But Esau's offspring are tied among Ishmael and among today's Jews also.
     So what does this mean, "The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire..."? This is a metaphor for a whole bunch of 'travail' upon these places, at different time intervals. Dumah, which also means 'silence', unable to rest through the night, is calling out to the watchmen, to see what's happening next. And the watchmen is basically giving the message that it doesn't matter when the morning comes, signalling it's all over. For as soon as morning comes, it's going to be night again (remember the 'travail' and 'pangs' analogy), with another destruction by the next army God brings.

Isa 21:13   The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14   The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

     This is the seventh burden. Dedan was a grandson of Abraham and his second wife Keturah, and Tema was one of the twelve princes of Ishmael (Gen.25).
     Dedan's brother Tema had brought water and bread to him, in the spiritual sense. This phrase 'they 'prevented' is the Hebrew 'qadam', which means 'to anticipate, hasten, meet (usually for help)' (Strong's no. 6923).
     Tema was known for their hospitality, even claiming: "No fire of ours was ever extinguished at night without a guest, and of our guests never did one disparage us." ² So this act is symbolic of brother's helping and relying upon each other during the time of 'travailing', and not God. The 'bread' and 'water' symbols are metaphors for Christ Jesus and His Truth. So what was the result then, and probably for these in our near future, as they still mainly rely upon each other's traditions, instead of coming to Christ in True worship?

Isa 21:15   For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16    For thus hath the Lord said unto me, "Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17    And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it."

     Kedar is another son of Ishmael. This burden is upon Arabia.

 

Jeremiah 49:28. Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord; “Arise ye, go up to Kedar , and spoil the men of the east.

 

Reveals Kedar's destruction; some will make it through Satan's future tribulation, but the number "shall be diminished" as given here. And this event of the future is implied more in the spiritual death sense by deception of worshiping the wrong messiah, not in the sense of physical destruction which many are claiming with a WWIII. "Peace and safety" is what the deceived will be proclaiming remember?

 

1 Thess.5:3. For when they shall say, “Peace and safety;” then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

     So how can they overcome the future event of this destruction? No matter what the whole house of Jacob thinks, they are still our brother. This is the result of not worshiping God through His Son Christ Jesus! Religious traditions which men devise will cause these events upon each successive nation. The Babylon system is the root of all false worship traditions presenting 'confusion' instead of God's Truth.

     GOD has setup 'watchmen' for today also, just like He told Isaiah to do here within this Chapter. Now I'm not saying I am one of those ‘watchmen’ only that God has given to those who love Him,