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26 Soon, even your best soldiers
    will lie dead in your streets.
I, the Lord All-Powerful,
    have spoken.

27 I will set fire to your city walls
and burn down the fortresses
    King Benhadad built.

Nebuchadnezzar and the People of the Desert

28 Here is what the Lord says about the Kedar tribe and the desert villages[a] that were conquered by King Nebuchadnezzar[b] of Babylonia:

Listen, you people of Kedar
and the other tribes
    of the eastern desert.
I have told Nebuchadnezzar
    to attack and destroy you.

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Footnotes

  1. 49.28 desert villages: The Hebrew text has “kingdoms of Hazor,” which probably refers to several kingdoms of desert peoples who were not nomads, but who lived in small villages.
  2. 49.28 Nebuchadnezzar: See the note at 21.2.

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