Isaiah 16 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Moab Destroyed

Moab Will Be Destroyed

Isa 16:1Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
From Sela to the wilderness,
To the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Isa 16:2For 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.

Isa 16:3

Isa 16:3“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.

Isa 16:4

Isa 16:4Let 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.

Isa 16:5

Isa 16:5In 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.”

Isa 16:6

Isa 16:6We 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.

Isa 16:7

Isa 16:7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;
Everyone shall wail.
For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
Surely they are stricken.

Isa 16:8

Isa 16:8For 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.

Isa 16:9

Isa 16:9Therefore 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.

Isa 16:10

Isa 16:10Gladness 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.

Isa 16:11

Isa 16:11Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,
And my inner being for Kir Heres.

Isa 16:12

Isa 16:12And 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.

Isa 16:13

Isa 16:13This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Isa 16:14

Isa 16:14But 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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