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Isaiah 21:16

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For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

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Isaiah 21:16 in other translations

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;

Isaiah 21:16 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 21:16 in context

  1. 14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
  2. 15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.
  3. 16For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
  4. 17and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”