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Isaiah 16 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 16
Moab Destroyed
Moab Will Be Destroyed
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1 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
​​From Sela to the wilderness,
​​To the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 ​​For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest;
​​So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
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3 ​​“Take counsel, execute judgment;
​​Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;
​​Hide the outcasts,
​​Do not betray him who escapes.
4 ​​Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;
​​Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler.
​​For the extortioner is at an end,
​​Devastation ceases,
​​The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 ​​In mercy the throne will be established;
​​And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
​​Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”
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6 ​​We have heard of the pride of Moab—
​​He is very proud—
​​Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
​​But his lies shall not be so.
7 ​​Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;
​​Everyone shall wail.
​​For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
​​Surely they are stricken.
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8 ​​For the fields of Heshbon languish,
​​And the vine of Sibmah;
​​The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,
​​Which have reached to Jazer
​​And wandered through the wilderness.
​​Her branches are stretched out,
​​They are gone over the sea.
9 ​​Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,
​​With the weeping of Jazer;
​​I will drench you with my tears,
​​O Heshbon and Elealeh;
​​For battle cries have fallen
​​Over your summer fruits and your harvest.
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10 ​​Gladness is taken away,
​​And joy from the plentiful field;
​​In the vineyards there will be no singing,
​​Nor will there be shouting;
​​No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
​​I have made their shouting cease.
11 ​​Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,
​​And my inner being for Kir Heres.
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12 ​​And it shall come to pass,
​​When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,
​​That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;
​​But he will not prevail.
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13 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”
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