KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 16
Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to Christ's kingdom. Moab is threatened for her pride. The judgment of Moab.
1Send a lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela in the wilderness to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2For it is as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest; the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3Take counsel; do judgment; make your shadow as the night in midday; hide the outcasts; do not uncover the fugitive!
4Let My outcasts stay with you, Moab. Be a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer. For the exacter has ended, destruction has failed; the trampler is ended out of the land.
5And in mercy the throne shall be founded; and He shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment, and prompt in righteousness.
6We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud; of his pride, his arrogance, and his rage; not so are his babblings.
7So Moab shall howl for Moab; everyone shall howl; all of it shall howl for the foundations of Kir-hareseth; surely they are stricken.
8For the fields of Heshbon droop, the vine of Sibmah. The masters of the nations have crushed its choice plants. They have come to Jazer; they wander in the desert; her branches are spread out; they have crossed the sea.
9On account of this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for shouting has fallen on your fruit and on your harvest.
10And gladness and joy is gathered up from the fruitful field; and there is no singing and no shouting in the vineyards; the one treading shall not tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shout to cease.
11On account of this my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my bowels for Kir-haresh.
12And it shall be, when it is seen that Moab shall be wearied on the high place, then he shall come to his sacred place to pray, and he shall not be able.
13This is the Word that Jehovah had spoken to Moab from then.
14But now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, then the glory of Moab will be abased, with all the great host; and the remnant shall be few; small, not mighty.
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