Kedar

Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

Dark am I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.

For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

And the remnant of the number of bow-men, The mighty of the sons of Kedar are few, For Jehovah, God of Israel, hath spoken!'

The wilderness and its cities do lift up the voice , The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry.

All the flock of Kedar are gathered to thee, The rams of Nebaioth do serve thee, They ascend for acceptance Mine altar, And the house of My beauty I beautify.

For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:

Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath smitten: `Thus said Jehovah: Arise ye, go ye up unto Kedar, And spoil the sons of the east.

Arabia, and all princes of Kedar, They are the traders of thy hand, For lambs, and rams, and he-goats, In these thy merchants.