“Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sila to the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.”
Isaiah 16
12 of 14 verses have a reading · Berean Standard Bible
1Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
“Send the lamb to the ruler of the land. From Selah to the wilderness to the mount of the daughter of Zion.”
2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
“For it shall be that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest. So the daughters of Moab shall be at the Fords of Arnon.”
“For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest. So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords above the Arnon.”
3"Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
“Take counsel. Execute judgment. Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day. Hide the outcast. Do not betray him who escapes.”
“Take counsel execute judgment make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday hide the outcast betray them not that wondereth”
4Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer." When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
“Let my outcast dwell with you, O Moab. Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler. For the extortioner is at an end. Devastation ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.”
“let mine outcast dwell with thee Moab. Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler for the extortioner is at the end and the spoiler ceases and the oppressors are consumed out of the land”
5in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.
“and in mercy shall the throne be established and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David judging and seeking judgment and hasting righteousness”
“In mercy, the throne will be established and one will sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”
“And in mercy shall the throne be established and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and hasting righteousness.”
6We have heard of Moab's pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.
“We have heard the pride of Moab. He is very proud of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath, but his lies shall not be so.”
7Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
“Therefore, Moab shall wail for Moab. Everyone shall wail for the foundations of Kir Heresheth. You shall mourn. Surely they are stricken”
8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
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9So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
“Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sidma. I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon and Elilah for the shouting of thy summer fruits and for the harvest is falling.”
“Therefore, I will bewail the vine of Sidmoth with the weeping of Jazir. I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elia, for battle cries have fallen over your summer fruits and your harvest.”
10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
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11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
“Therefore, my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab and my inner being for Kir Heres.”
12When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
“It shall come to pass when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place that he will come to a sanctuary to pray, but he will not prevail.”
13This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.
“this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time.”
“This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time.”
14And now the LORD says, "In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab's splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble."
“But now the Lord has spoken saying within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”