Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 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. 3 Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not the fugitive.
Cross References
Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Judges 11:18
Then they journeyed through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.
Numbers 21:13-15
From thence they removed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all before us.
Deuteronomy 3:8
And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, that were on this side the Jordan, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon
Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
Joshua 13:16
And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the plateau by Medeba;
Isaiah 13:14
And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.
Jeremiah 48:20
Moab is put to shame; for he is broken down: howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.