A pronouncement concerning Arabia: In the desert brush you will camp for the night, you caravans of Dedanites.
Men of Dedan , were also your merchants; many coasts and islands were your usual markets. They brought back ivory tusks and ebony as your payment.
The sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jokshan’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were the Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
A pronouncement concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. Raama’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
besides what came from merchants, traders’ merchandise, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.
The watchman said, ‘Morning has come, and also night. If you want to ask, ask! Come back again.’
Run! Turn back! Lie low, residents of Dedan, for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him at the time I punish him.