A Message Concerning Kedar and the Kingdoms of Hazor

28 Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh:

• “Rise up, go up against Kedar
  • and destroy the people[fn] of the east.
  • 29 They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment,
• and their camels they will carry away for themselves,
  • and they will call to them, ‘Terror is from all around.’
  • 30 Flee! Wander far away! Get down low ![fn] O inhabitants of Hazor,” declares[fn] Yahweh.
• “For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you.
  • And he has schemed[fn] a scheme[fn] against you.
  • 31 Rise up, go up against a nation which is at ease, living securely ,”[fn] declares[fn] Yahweh.
• “ There are no gates and there are no bars[fn] for them,
  • they dwell alone.
  • 32 And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil.
• And I will scatter to every wind those who are trimmed to the side,
  • and from every side[fn] I will bring their disaster,” declares[fn] Yahweh.
  • 33 “And Hazor will become as a lair of jackals, a waste forever;
• no one will live there,
  • and no son of humankind will dwell as an alien in it.”