ULT ISA Chapter 16

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16 Send a lamb to the ruler of the land,

from Sela through the wilderness

to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

2 And it will happen, like a wandering bird scattered from a nest,

thus the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

3 “Bring counsel, do justice.

Make your shadow like night in the midst of noon.

Hide the outcast ones;

may you not reveal the wanderer.

4 Let the outcast ones of Moab sojourn among you.

Be a shelter for them

from the face of the destroyer.

For the oppressor will cease,

destruction will end,

the trampler will finish from the land.

5 And the throne will be established in covenant faithfulness,

and one will sit on it in truth in the tent of David,

judging and seeking justice and swift of righteousness.”

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—very proud—

its arrogance and its pride and its wrath;

its boasts are not so.

7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab;

all of it will wail.

For the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, you will moan;

they are surely stricken.

8 For the fields of Heshbon are enfeebled,

and the vine of Sibmah.

The lords of the nations

have stomped its choice vines.

They reached to Jazer,

they wandered into the wilderness;

its shoots spread out,

they passed on to the sea.

9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer

for the vine of Sibmah.

I will drench you with my tears,

Heshbon and Elealeh.

For over your summer fruit and over your harvest,

shouting has fallen.

10 And gladness is gathered, and rejoicing,

from the agricultural land.

And in the vineyards, it is not sung;

one does not shout joyfully.

In the presses, the treader does not tread wine.

“I have made shouting cease.”

11 Therefore my insides moan like a harp for Moab,

and my inward part, for Kir Heres.

12 And it will happen, when it is seen

that Moab is wearied on the high place,

that it will come to its sanctuary to pray,

but it will not be able.

13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke about Moab from then. 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, like the years of a hired one, the glory of Moab will be despised, with all of the great multitude, and the remnant will be few, a trifle, not mighty.”