Water for Arabia’s fugitives

13An oracle concerning Arabia: In the forest in Arabia you will spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

14Bring water to meet the thirsty; O inhabitants of the land of Tema, meet the fugitive with bread.

15For they have fled from swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the weight of battle.

16For thus the Lord said to me: Within a year, like the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

17And the remainder of the number of the bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken.