Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The daughters of
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
forced from the nest,
the daughters of Moab
will be at the fords of the Arnon.
International Standard Version
Like fluttering birds, like an abandoned nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.
A Conservative Version
For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
American Standard Version
For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Amplified
For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.
Bible in Basic English
For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
Darby Translation
And it shall be that as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Julia Smith Translation
And it shall be as the bird fleeing, the nest cast out, the daughters of Moab shall be from the passages to Arnon.
King James 2000
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 the Arnon.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And this shall be: like a bird fleeing [from] a thrust away nest shall be the daughters of Moab [at the] fords of Arnon.
Modern King James verseion
For it shall be as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For as for the daughters of Moab, they shall be as a trembling bird, that is put out of her nest: for they shall carry them unto Arnon.
NET Bible
At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.
New Heart English Bible
For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
The Emphasized Bible
Yet shall it be that - Like wandering birds from a nest cast forth, Shall be the daughters of Moab, at the fords of Amen.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
Youngs Literal Translation
And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, at fords of Arnon.
Themes
Birds » Illustrative » Of unsettled persons, &c
Interlinear
Nadad
Shalach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 16:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Moab's Hopeless Situation
1
Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion.
2
The daughters of
Cross References
Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.
Judges 11:18
Then they went through the desert around the land of Edom and the land of Moab until they came to the east side of Moab, on the other side of the Arnon River. They camped there, but they did not cross the Arnon because it was the boundary of Moab.
Numbers 21:13-15
They moved again and camped on the north side of the Arnon River, in the desert that extends into Amorite territory. The Arnon was the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.
Deuteronomy 2:36
Jehovah helped us capture every town from the Arnon River Gorge north to the boundary of Gilead. This included the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.
Deuteronomy 3:8
Sihon and Og ruled Amorite kingdoms east of the Jordan River. Their land stretched from the Arnon River Gorge in the south to Mount Hermon in the north. We captured it all.
Deuteronomy 3:12
We took possession of this land. I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad the land north of Aroer near the Arnon Valley and half of the mountain region of Gilead with its cities.
Joshua 13:16
Their coast was from Aroer that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba,
Isaiah 13:14
They will each turn to his own people, and each one escape to his own land just like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep without a shepherd.
Jeremiah 48:20
Moab has fallen, they will answer; weep for it because it is disgraced. Announce along the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed!