Isaiah 21:11-17 ▼

11 The oracle concerning Dumah. One keeps calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?”

12 The watchman says, “Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again.”

13 The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.

14 Bring water to meet the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet with bread the one who has fled.

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

16 For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the glory of Kedar will end;

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