Thematic Bible
Isaiah 16:1 (show verse)
Send a ram [to the] ruler [of the] land, from Sela [across the] desert to the mountain of {daughter Zion}.
Isaiah 16:2 (show verse)
And this shall be: like a bird fleeing [from] a thrust away nest shall be the daughters of Moab [at the] fords of Arnon.
Isaiah 16:3 (show verse)
"Bring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noonday. Hide [the] outcasts; you must not betray the fugitive.
Isaiah 16:4 (show verse)
Let my outcasts [of] Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from [the] presence of [the] destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, [the] {one who tramples has} disappeared from the land,
Isaiah 16:5 (show verse)
then a throne shall be established in steadfast love, and one shall sit on it in faithfulness, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and zealous for righteousness.
Isaiah 16:6 (show verse)
We have heard [of] the pride of Moab--exceedingly proud-- [of] his arrogance, pride, and insolence; {his boasting is not true}.
Isaiah 16:7 (show verse)
Therefore Moab wails; all of it wails for Moab, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you moan, {utterly devastated}.
Isaiah 16:8 (show verse)
For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered [to the] desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over [the] sea.
Isaiah 16:9 (show verse)
Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer [for] the vine of Sibmah. I drench you [with] my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest.
Isaiah 16:10 (show verse)
And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful land, and in the vineyards no one exults, no one shouts for joy; no treader treads wine in the presses; I have put to an end to [the] jubilant shout.
Isaiah 16:11 (show verse)
Therefore my {heart moans} like harp for Moab and my inner parts for Kir-heres.
Isaiah 16:12 (show verse)
And this shall happen: when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place and it comes to its sanctuary to pray, it will not prevail.
Isaiah 16:13 (show verse)
This [was] the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab {in the past}.
Isaiah 16:14 (show verse)
But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "In three years, like [the] years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will become contemptible, with all of the great multitude, and [the] remnant [will be] a few, small, not strong.