The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 16
1 Send the lambs for the ruler of the
land from Selah to the wilderness, to the
mountain of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it will be that as wandering birds,
as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of
Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Make
your shade like the night in the middle of
the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t
betray the fugitive!
4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for
Moab, be a hiding place for him from the
face of the destroyer. For the extortionist
is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases.
The oppressors are consumed out of the
land.
5 A throne will be established in loving
kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the
tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and
swift to do righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab,
that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his
pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab.
Everyone will wail. You will mourn for
the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly
stricken.
8 For the fields of Heshbon languish
with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of
the nations have broken down its choice
branches, 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
ofJazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water
you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh:
for on your summer fruits and on your
harvest the battle shout has fallen.
10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out
of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards
there will be no singing, neither joyful
noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the
presses. I have made the shouting stop.
11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp
for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir
Heres.
12 It will happen that when Moab
presents himself, when he wearies himself
on the high place, and comes to his
sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.
13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke
concerning Moab in time past. 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying,
“Within three years, as a worker bound by
contract would count them, the glory of
Moab shall be brought into contempt, with
all his great multitude; and the remnant
will be very small and feeble.”