For very soon my fury will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”

For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated –

For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.