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¹ So it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. ² All its sighing I have made to cease. ³ I was dismayed when I saw it. ⁴ The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me. ⁵ Anoint the shield! ⁶ Let him declare what he sees.” ⁷ And he listened earnestly with great care. ⁸ I have sat at my post every night. ⁹ He has broken to the ground.” ¹⁰ I have declared to you. ¹¹ Watchman, what of the night?” ¹² Return! Come back!” ¹³ O you traveling companies of Dedanites. ¹⁴ With their bread they met him who fled. ¹⁵ From the bent bow, and from the distress of war. ¹⁶ For thus the Lord has said to me: “Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail; ¹⁷ and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.”