15. People are fleeing to escape from swords that are ready to kill them, from bows that are ready to shoot, from all the dangers of war.
16. Then the Lord said to me, “In exactly one year the greatness of the tribes of Kedar will be at an end.
17. The bowmen are the bravest men of Kedar, but few of them will be left. I, the Lord God of Israel, have spoken.”