Isaiah · Bible in Basic English
Isaiah 16 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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1 And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
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2 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.
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3 Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.
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4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.
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5 Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.
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6 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.
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7 For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.
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8 For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.
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9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
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10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.
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11 For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.
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12 And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.
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13 This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.
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14 But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.
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Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 10:32; 2 Kings 3:4; 2 Kings 14:7; 2 Samuel 8:2; Ezra 7:17
- 2 Proverbs 27:8; Judges 11:18; Deuteronomy 3:8; Isaiah 13:14; Jeremiah 48:20
- 3 1 Kings 18:4; Isaiah 32:2; Obadiah 12–14; Ezekiel 45:9–12; Isaiah 9:6
- 4 Isaiah 14:4; Isaiah 9:4; Malachi 4:3; Isaiah 51:13; Isaiah 25:10
- 5 Daniel 7:14; Micah 4:7; Isaiah 9:6–7; Daniel 7:27; Zechariah 9:9
- 6 Amos 2:1; Obadiah 3–4; Jeremiah 48:29–30; Jeremiah 48:42; Zephaniah 2:8–10
- 7 2 Kings 3:25; Jeremiah 48:20; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Isaiah 15:1–5; Isaiah 16:11
- 8 Isaiah 15:4; Numbers 32:38; Isaiah 10:7; 2 Samuel 1:21; Isaiah 24:7
- 9 Jeremiah 40:12; Jeremiah 40:10; Isaiah 15:4–5; Judges 9:27; Isaiah 9:3
- 10 Jeremiah 48:33; Amos 5:11; Amos 5:17; Judges 9:27; Habakkuk 3:17–18
- 11 Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 63:15; Philippians 2:1; Hosea 11:8; Jeremiah 48:36
- 12 Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:35; 1 Kings 18:29; Jeremiah 48:7; Numbers 23:14
- 13 Isaiah 44:8
- 14 Jeremiah 48:42; Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 23:9; Jeremiah 48:46–47; Isaiah 7:16
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences