11. Here is a message about Dumah:Someone calls to me from Seir,“Watchman, what is left of the night?Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12. The watchman replies,“Morning is coming, but then night.If you want to ask, ask;come back again.”
13. Here is a message about Arabia:In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night,you Dedanite caravans.
14. Bring out some water for the thirsty.You who live in the land of Tema,bring some food for the fugitives.
15. For they flee from the swords – from the drawn swordand from the battle-ready bowand from the severity of the battle.
16. For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
17. Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” Indeed, the Lord God of Israel has spoken.