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 ye the lamb to the ruler of the land, from the rock of the wilderness unto the mount 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 that wanders from his place.
Judges 11:18
Then they went along through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and came by the side of the rising of the sun to the land of Moab; they pitched their camp on the other side of Arnon and did not enter within the border of Moab, for Arnon was the border of Moab.
Numbers 21:13-15
From thence they removed and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the borders of the Amorite; for Arnon is the border of Moab between Moab and the Amorite.
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river even unto Gilead, there was not one city escaped us; the LORD our God delivered all of them before us.
Deuteronomy 3:8
And we also took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto Mount Hermon
Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land, which we inherited at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Joshua 13:16
and their border 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 until Medeba,
Isaiah 13:14
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep without a shepherd: they shall each man look unto his own people, and flee each one unto his own land.
Jeremiah 48:20
Moab is confounded, for it is broken down; howl and cry; tell it in Arnon that Moab is spoiled,