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Isaiah 16 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:1 - I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is not the mount of the daughter of Sion a desolate rock?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:2 - For thou shalt be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: even thou shalt be so, daughter of Moab: and then do thou, O Arnon,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:3 - take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with thee; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for thine alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:5 - And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hasting righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:6 - We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:7 - Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but thou shalt care for them that dwell in Seth, and thou shalt not be ashamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:9 - Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down thy trees; for I will trample on thy harvest and on thy vintages, and all thy plants shall fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not rejoice at all in thy vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for the vintage has ceased.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:11 - Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and [fn]thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:12 - And it shall be to thy shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:13 - This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - And now I say, In three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonoured with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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