Isaiah 16 JPS Tanakh (1917)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Numbers like (22-2) in the text give the Hebrew verse numbering where it differs.
Isaiah is not in PT1904.
1 Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from the crags that are toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
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2 For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
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3 'Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
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4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land;
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5 And a throne is established through mercy, and there sitteth thereon in truth, in the tent of David, one that judgeth, and seeketh justice, and is ready in righteousness.
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6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, his ill-founded boastings.
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7 Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken.
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8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah, whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
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9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen.
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10 And gladness and joy are taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting; no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease.
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11 Wherefore my heart moaneth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres.
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12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail
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13 This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.
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14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying: 'Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.'
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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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