13 A message for Arabia:

You’ll all overnight in Arabia’s forest, you Dedanite caravans.

14 Bring water out to meet the thirsty.

You who live in Tema bring some food for the fugitives

15 because they’ve fled from the approaching army with their swords held out in front of them,

≈ and from the taut bows and from the stress of battle.

16 Yahweh told me that in exactly one year from now,

≈ like the end of the labourer’s contract,

all the greatness of Kedar in Arabia will come to an end.

17 Only a few of Kedar’s archers will remain from their warriors,

because Yisrael’s god Yahweh has spoken.