Isaiah 21:16

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Summary

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

According

Isaiah 16:14

Job 7:1

Kedar

Bible References

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And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Kedar

Let the desert and its cities shout,
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops.

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you;
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you
and go up on My altar as an acceptable sacrifice.
I will glorify My beautiful house.

These are the names of Ishmael’s sons; their names according to the family records are: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

These are their family records: Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,

that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

Daughters of Jerusalem,
I am dark like the tents of Kedar,
yet lovely like the curtains of Solomon.

About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, defeated, this is what the Lord says:

Rise up, go against Kedar,
and destroy the people of the east!

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your business partners, trading with you in lambs, rams, and goats.