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The Book of Isaiah 16

16 Send a ram

to the ruler of the land

from Selah in the wilderness,

to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 And it will happen, as a bird wanders

from a scattered nest,

so the women of Moab are

at the fords of the Arnon.

3 “Take counsel,

execute justice;

provide your shade like night

in the middle of the day.

Hide the fugitives;

do not expose the refugees.

4 Let them live among you,

the refugees of Moab;

be a hiding place for them

from the face of the destroyer.”

For the oppression will stop,

destruction will cease,

oppressors will disappear from the land.

5 And a throne will be established in covenant faithfulness;

and on it will sit in truth

one from the tent of David.

He will judge and seek justice,

and rush to righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, great pride,

his pride and his boasting and his anger,

his boasts are not true.

7 So Moab wails for Moab,

they all wail!

For the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth they mourn.

Surely they are afflicted,

8 for the fields of Heshbon have dried up,

and the vines of Sibmah.

The rulers of the nations

have trampled its choice vines,

as far as Jazer they reached,

spread into the desert.

Its shoots stretched out;

they passed on to the sea.

9 Indeed I shall weep in the weeping of Jazer,

the vine of Sibmah,

I shall water you with my tears,

Heshbon and Elealeh.

For on your summer fruits and on your harvest

acclamations have ceased.

10 And gladness and joy are taken away from the orchard,

and in the vineyards, no rejoicing, no cheers.

The treader does not tread wine in the presses;

I have suppressed the shouts of joy.

11 So my heart sighs like a harp for Moab,

and my inward being for Kir Hareseth. 12 And it will happen, for it will be seen that Moab is fruitless on the high place, and he will come to his temple to pray, and it will not happen.

13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab previously. 14 And now, Yahweh speaks, saying, “Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will disappear; of all the great multitude, the remnant will be very few, no significance.”