¹⁶ This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract^(A) would count it, all the splendor^(B) of Kedar^(C) will come to an end.

¹⁷ The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.^(A)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.^(B)