For thus יהוה has said to me, “Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the esteem of Qĕ
And these were the names of the sons of Yishmaʽ
These are their genealogies: The first-born of Yishmaʽ
“Does not man have to struggle on earth? For his days are like the days of a hired man.
Woe to me for I have sojourned in Mesheḵ
I am dark, but lovely, O daughters of Yerushalayim, Like the tents of Qĕ
But now יהוה has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the esteem of Mo’aḇ
Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages where Qĕ
“All the flocks of Qĕ
“For, pass beyond the isles of Kittim and see, and send to Qĕ
To Qĕ
“Araḇ