Oracle against Arabia

13 An oracle ⌊concerning⌋[fn] Arabia:

• You will spend the night in the thicket in a desert-plateau,[fn]
  • caravans of Dedanites.
• 14 When you happen to meet[fn] the thirsty, bring water.
  • Inhabitants of the land of Tema came to meet the fugitive with his bread.
• 15 For they have fled from the swords,
  • from the drawn sword and the bent bow,
  • and from the heaviness of the battle.

16 For the Lord said this to me:

“⌊In one more year⌋,[fn] like the years of a hired worker,

• all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
  • 17 And the remainder of the number of the bows[fn] of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few.”

For Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken.