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16 For this is what the Lord[a] is saying to me: “Within three years,[b] according to the years of a contract worker,[c] the pomp[d] of Kedar will come to an end.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:16 So 1QIsaa 4QIsaa; MT reads Lord
  2. Isaiah 21:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read Within a year
  3. Isaiah 21:16 I.e. as if carefully counted pursuant to an employment contract; cf. Isa 16:14
  4. Isaiah 21:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads years, all the pomp

16 This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract(A) would count it, all the splendor(B) of Kedar(C) will come to an end.

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