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16 For this is what the Lord[a] has told me: “Within exactly one year[b] all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. 17 Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.”[c] Indeed,[d] the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:16 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay).
  2. Isaiah 21:16 tn Heb “in still a year, like the years of a hired worker.” See the note at 16:14.
  3. Isaiah 21:17 tn Heb “and the remnant of the number of the bow, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few.”
  4. Isaiah 21:17 tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).

16 This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract(A) would count it, all the splendor(B) of Kedar(C) will come to an end. 17 The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.(D)” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.(E)

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