For go to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

And these are the names of the sons of Ismael, according to the names of their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael [was] Nabajoth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

And these [are] their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael [was] Nabajoth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

I am dark, but beautiful, you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

You may lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dedan.

For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, [and] the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail;

and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken [it].

Rejoice, you wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar; the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, [bringing] camels, lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you.

Flee, dig very deep for a dwelling place, you that dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device against you.

And the palace shall be a resting place for ostriches, and desolate forever. No man shall abide there, and no son of man shall dwell there.

I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent messengers to the nations, [saying,] Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise up to war.

Rise up, and go up against a nation settled [and] dwelling at ease, who have no doors, nor bolts, nor bars, [who] dwell alone.

Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest; for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return everyone to his people, and everyone shall flee to his own land.

Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open [the gates], you rulers.

A voice of many nations on the mountains, [even] like [to that] of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together; the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the country of the east.

And it came to pass when the children of Israel sowed, that Midian and Amalek went up, and the children of the east went up together with them.

And his substance consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was [most] noble of the men of the east.

And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines; they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them [that come] from the east, and Edom; and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey [them].