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Isaiah 21:16

Verse 16 of 17. The 21st of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

12The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”

13The burden on Arabia. You will lodge in the thickets in Arabia, you caravans of Dedanites.

14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

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

16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.