| Isa. 16:1 |
Send a lamb [of tribute] / To the ruler of the land, / From Sela across the wilderness / To the mountain of the daughter of Zion. |
| Isa. 16:2 |
Like wandering birds, / [Like] a scattered nest, / Will the daughters of Moab be / At the fords of the Arnon. |
| Isa. 16:3 |
Give [us] counsel, / Make a judgment [concerning us.] / Make your shadow at high noon / Like night [to us.] / Hide the outcasts; / Do not expose him who wanders. |
| Isa. 16:4 |
Let the outcasts of Moab / Dwell with you; / Be a hiding place to them / From the destroyer. / When the extortioner finishes / [And] destruction ends, / [When] the oppressor is completely [gone] from the land, |
| Isa. 16:5 |
Then will a throne be established in lovingkindness, / And upon it One will sit in truth / In the tent of David, / Judging and pursuing justice / And hastening righteousness. |
| Isa. 16:6 |
We have heard of the pride of Moab-- / He is extremely proud-- / Of his haughtiness and pride and insolence; / His boastings are [all] untrue. |
| Isa. 16:7 |
Therefore Moab will howl for Moab; / They all will howl. / For the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth / You will mourn, utterly stricken. |
| Isa. 16:8 |
Because the fields of Heshbon have withered, / [And] the vine of Sibmah, [too.] / The lords of the nations / Have trampled under its choicest vines, / Which reached as far as Jazer, / Which meandered into the desert. / Its shoots spread abroad; / They crossed over [to] the sea. |
| Isa. 16:9 |
Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, / For the vine of Sibmah; / I will soak you with my tears, / Heshbon and Elealeh. / For the harvest shout is hushed / Over your summer fruit and over your reapings. |
| Isa. 16:10 |
Rejoicing is taken away, and exultation from the fruited field; / In the vineyards there will be no singing for joy; no shouts will be uttered. / The treader will not tread out wine in the presses-- / I have made the harvest shout stop. |
| Isa. 16:11 |
Therefore for Moab my bowels will moan like a lyre, / And my inward parts for Kir-heres. |
| Isa. 16:12 |
And when Moab appears, / When they weary themselves at their high place, / And come to their sanctuary to pray, / It will not avail. |
| Isa. 16:13 |
This is the word which Jehovah spoke concerning Moab long ago. |
| Isa. 16:14 |
And now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, like the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be disgraced, with all its great multitude, and [its] remnant will be small--a mere trifle, nothing great. |