15. For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,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.”