Isa 16
1
Send you the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the
mount of the daughter of Zion.
2
For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters
of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
3
Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the noonday;
hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
4
Let mine outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be you a covert to him from the face
of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the
oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5
And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in
truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
6
We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogancy,
and his pride, and his anger; his boastings are nothing.
7
Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of
Kir-hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken.
8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations
have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered
into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
9
Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water
you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon your summer fruits and upon your
harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
10
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards
there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in
the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
11
Wherefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres.
12
And it shall come to pass, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon
the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
13
This is the word that YHWH spoke concerning Moab in time past.
14
But now YHWH has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the
glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the
remnant shall be very small and of no account.