Isaiah 16

16Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of Daughter Zion.H7971H3733H4910H776H5554H4057H2022H1323H67262Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.H5074H5775H7971H7064H1323H4124H4569H7693"Make up your mind," Moab says. "Render a decision. Make your shadow like night—at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.H935H6098H6213H6415H7896H6738H3915H8432H6672H5641H5080H1540H50744Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer." The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.H5080H1481H4124H1933H5643H6440H7703H4160H656H7701H3615H7429H8552H7765In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it—one from the house of David—one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.H2617H3678H3559H3427H571H168H1732H8199H1875H4941H4106H66646We have heard of Moab's pride—her overweening pride and conceit, her pride and her insolence—but her boasts are empty.H8085H1347H4124H3966H1341H1346H1347H5678H9077Therefore the Moabites wail, they wail together for Moab. Lament and grieve for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.H4124H3213H4124H3213H808H7025H1897H52188The fields of Heshbon wither, the vines of Sibmah also. The rulers of the nations have trampled down the choicest vines, which once reached Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots spread out and went as far as the sea.H7709H2809H535H1612H7643H1167H1471H1986H8291H5060H3270H8582H4057H7976H5203H5674H32209So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. Heshbon and Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled.H1058H1065H3270H1612H7643H7301H1832H2809H500H1959H7019H7105H530710Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.H8057H622H1524H3759H3754H7442H7321H1869H1869H3196H3342H1959H767311My heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.H4578H1993H3658H4124H7130H702512When Moab appears at her high place, she only wears herself out; when she goes to her shrine to pray, it is to no avail.H7200H4124H3811H1116H935H4720H6419H320113This is the word the LORD has already spoken concerning Moab.H1697H3068H1696H4124H22714But now the LORD says: "Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab's splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble."H3068H1696H559H7969H8141H8141H7916H3519H4124H7034H7227H1995H7605H4592H4213H3808H3524