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| | Isa 16:1 | Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
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| | Isa 16:2 | Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.
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| | Isa 16:3 | "Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.
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| | Isa 16:4 | "Let the outcasts of Moab stay 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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| | Isa 16:5 | A throne will even be established in lovingkindness, And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of David; Moreover, he will seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.
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| | Isa 16:6 | We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false.
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| | Isa 16:7 | 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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| | Isa 16:8 | For the fields of Heshbon have withered, 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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| | Isa 16:9 | 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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| | Isa 16:10 | Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field; In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.
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| | Isa 16:11 | Therefore my heart intones like a harp for Moab And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.
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| | Isa 16:12 | So it will come about when Moab presents himself, When he wearies himself upon his high place And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail.
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| | Isa 16:13 | This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab.
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| | Isa 16:14 | But now the Lord speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and impotent."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
