We moved on and left the road that goes from the towns of Elath and Eziongeber to the Dead Sea. We turned northeast toward Moab.

Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as taxes. The Arabs also brought him flocks: seven thousand and seven hundred rams and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.

God helped him when he attacked the Philistines, the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.

But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us. They laughed at us and said: What are you doing? Will you go against the king?

When our enemies had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed. They saw that our God had done this work.

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their toil. They search in the wasteland food for their young.

Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling?

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there.

You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,

The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom in the wastelands.

Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the foreign people living in the desert;

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers for lambs, rams and goats.

Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speak in our language the wonderful works of God.

I did not go to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before I was. I went away to Arabia and again I returned to Damascus.

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia. She corresponds to the Jerusalem that now is. She is in bondage with her children.