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Isaiah 16 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,from Sela, by way of the desert,to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2. Like fleeing birds,like a scattered nest,so are the daughters of Moabat the fords of the Arnon.

3. “Give counsel;grant justice; make your shade like nightat the height of noon;shelter the outcasts;do not reveal the fugitive;

4. let the outcasts of Moabsojourn among you;be a shelter to themfrom the destroyer.When the oppressor is no more,and destruction has ceased,and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

5. then a throne will be established in steadfast love,and on it will sit in faithfulnessin the tent of Davidone who judges and seeks justiceand is swift to do righteousness.”

6. We have heard of the pride of Moab—how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;in his idle boasting he is not right.

7. Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail.Mourn, utterly stricken,for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

8. For the fields of Heshbon languish,and the vine of Sibmah;the lords of the nationshave struck down its branches,which reached to Jazerand strayed to the desert;its shoots spread abroadand passed over the sea.

9. Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazerfor the vine of Sibmah;I drench you with my tears,O Heshbon and Elealeh;for over your summer fruit and your harvestthe shout has ceased.

10. And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field,and in the vineyards no songs are sung,no cheers are raised;no treader treads out wine in the presses;I have put an end to the shouting.

11. Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

12. And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

13. This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.

14. But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble.”