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Isaiah 16 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,

From [fn]Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

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Then, like [fn]fleeing birds or scattered [fn]nestlings,

The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

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“Bring us counsel, make a decision;

[fn]Cast your shadow like night [fn]at high noon;

Hide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees.

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“Let the [fn]banished of Moab sojourn with you;

Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”

For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,

Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

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And a throne will be established in lovingkindness,

And a judge will sit on it in truth in the tent of David;

Moreover, he will seek justice

And be prompt in righteousness.

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We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;

Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury;

His idle boasts are [fn]false.

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Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.

You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth

As those who are utterly stricken.

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For the fields of Heshbon have languished, the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;

Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

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Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;

I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;

For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

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Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful orchard;

In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation,

No treader treads out wine in the presses,

For I have made the shouting to cease.

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Therefore my [fn]inner being moans like a harp for Moab

And my [fn]inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

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So it will be when Moab appears,

When he wearies himself upon his high place

And comes to his sanctuary to pray,

That he will not prevail.

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This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab.

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Petra in Edom
Or fluttering
Lit nest
Lit Set
Lit in the midst of the noon
As in the versions; M.T. My banished ones, as for Moab
Lit not so
Lit entrails murmur
Lit inward part
Lit the years of a hireling
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Isaiah Chapter 16 — Additional Translations:

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