11 An oracle concerning Dumah2 21:11 Dumah means silence or stillness , a wordplay on Edom . : |
12 The watchman replies,
"Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
and come back yet again." |
13 An oracle concerning Arabia: |
14 bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,
bring food for the fugitives. |
15 They flee from the sword,
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
and from the heat of battle. |
16 This is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the pomp of Kedar will come to an end. |
17 The survivors of the bowmen, the warriors of Kedar, will be few." The LORD , the God of Israel, has spoken. |