Isaiah 16

1Send a ram to the ruler of the land,[#Possibly “rams” if a scribe accidentally omitted the Hebrew plural ending because the next word begins with that same letter]

2And this shall be:

like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest

3“Bring counsel,

make your shade like the night

Hide the outcasts;

4Let my outcasts of Moab dwell as aliens among you;

When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped,

5then a throne shall be established in steadfast love,

judging and seeking justice

6We have heard of the pride of Moab—exceedingly proud—

7Therefore Moab wails;

8For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah;

they reached up to Jazer,

her shoots spread abroad,

9Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah.

10And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful land,[#The Hebrew is singular]

no one shouts for joy;

11Therefore my heart moans like a harp for Moab[#Literally “intestines moan,”; in Hebrew, the “intestines” are the seat of the emotions, which would correspond to the “heart” in English]

12And this shall happen:

when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place

13This was the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab in the past.[#Literally “from then”]

14But 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.

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