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.

¹⁴ But now the Lord says: “Within three years,^(A) as a servant bound by contract^(B) would count them,^(C) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,^(D) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”^(E)

²¹ “‘Arabia^(A) and all the princes of Kedar^(B) were your customers; they did business with you in lambs, rams and goats.

A Message About Kedar and Hazor

²⁸ Concerning Kedar^(A) and the kingdoms of Hazor,^(B) which Nebuchadnezzar^(C) king of Babylon attacked:

This is what the Lord says:

¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth^(A) the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar,^(B) Adbeel, Mibsam,