Isaiah 16 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
Isaiah is not in PT1904.
1 Send yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde from the rocke of the wildernesse, vnto the mountaine of the daughter Zion.
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2 For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes of Arnon.
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3 Gather a cousel, execute iudgement: make thy shadowe as the night in the midday: hide them that are chased out: bewray not him that is fled.
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4 Let my banished dwell with thee: Moab be thou their couert from the face of the destroyer: for the extortioner shall ende: the destroyer shalbe consumed, and the oppressour shall cease out of the land.
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5 And in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and hee shall sit vpon it in stedfastnesse, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging, and seeking iudgement, and hasting iustice.
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6 We haue heard of the pride of Moab, (he is very proud) euen his pride, and his arrogancie, and his indignation, but his lies shall not be so.
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7 Therefore shall Moab howle vnto Moab: euery one shall howle: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourne, yet they shalbe striken.
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8 For ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes of the heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof: they are come vnto Iaazer: they wandred in the wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out them selues, and went ouer the sea.
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9 Therefore will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.
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10 And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.
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11 Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde like an harpe for Moab, and mine inwarde partes for Ker-haresh.
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12 And when it shall appeare that Moab shall be wearie of his hie places, then shall hee come to his temple to praie, but he shall not preuaile.
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13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.
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14 And nowe the Lord hath spoken, saying, In three yeres, as the yeeres of a hireling, and the glorie of Moab shall be contemned in all the great multitude, and the remnant shalbe very small and feeble.
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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
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