So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.

And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.

And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.

But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.

The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!

The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land;

Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.

Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.

And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.

Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.