The burden of Arabia: In the desert brush of Arabia you will stay for the night, you caravans of Dedanites.
The men of Dedan traded with you; many coastlands were your customers; they brought you horns of ivory and ebony as your payment.
The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s sons were Asshurim, Letushim and Leummim.
But this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.
It will never be inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation, nor will an Arab pitch a tent there, nor will shepherds let flocks lie there.
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama and Sabteca. The sons of Raama: Sheba and Dedan.
besides what was from the merchants from the traffic of the traders, and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the region.
Cush’s sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons were Sheba, and Dedan.
The watchman said, “Morning comes, yet also it is night.” If you would inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
Flee! Turn back! Stay low, inhabitants of Dedan, for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him at the time that I punish him.