Isaiah 16
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A Plea for Mercy
1Send a flock of lambs from the rock # 16:1 Or possibly a place in Edom called Sela (see 2 Kings 14:7). Sela means “rock” or “cliff.” of the desert
as a gift to the leaders in Jerusalem, # 16:1 Or “Send a lamb of the lord of the land.” This would have been a gift of tribute sent to secure Judah’s protection.
to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion.
2At the banks of the River Arnon, the women of Moab
are like newly hatched, fluttering birds.
3They say, “Make a decision!
Give us shelter. # 16:3 Or “Make your shade like night at noon.” Hide the fugitives. Don’t betray them!
4Allow the Moabite fugitives to stay with you.
Be a shelter for them from the destroyer!”
One day the oppressor will be no more.
The destroyer # 16:4 Or “Destruction.” will come to an end,
and the tyrant will vanish from the land.
5Then a government of unfailing love # 16:5 Or “a throne,” a metonymy for a king or government being established. will be established,
with a faithful king in the tabernacle of David,
passionate for justice and swift to do what is right.
Moab’s Demise
6We have heard about Moab’s pride.
How haughty she is—filled with arrogance and insolence,
with nothing more than empty boasts!
7So now Moab will wail;
everyone will wail over the ruin of their country.
Lament and grieve for the foundations of Kir-Hareseth. # 16:7 Or “over the raisin cakes [delicacies] of Kir-Hareseth [wall of earthen potsherds]” or “You shall care for those who dwell in Seth” (LXX).
8All the lush fields of Heshbon are dried up.
The vineyards of Sibmah have struck down the lords of nations, # 16:8 “The lords of the nations have broken down its vines.”
whose vines reached northward to Jazer # 16:8 Modern Sumia, a suburb of Heshbon.
and spread to the desert.
Their shoots spread out and extend across the Dead Sea. # 16:8 Moab’s spreading, creeping vines of Heshbon (“stronghold”) become a metaphor for the tentacles of pride that spread throughout the heart of man.
9So I weep along with Jazer over the vines of Sibmah.
I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, # 16:9 Elealeh is a city. Elealeh means “a mighty one [God] ascends.” See Num. 32:37.
for the shouts of joy over the harvest
of fruit and grain have ceased.
10Joyful celebrations are stilled in the orchards;
in the vineyards, no one sings or shouts,
and no one treads out wine in the presses.
I have silenced your gleeful shouts.
11Like harp strings, my heartstrings throb for Moab, # 16:11 Even for pride-filled Moab, God’s heart was moved with compassion.
and my inner being sighs for your broken walls, Kir-Hareseth. # 16:11 Or “for Kir-Hareseth [wall of earthen potsherds].”
12When Moab comes to their high places
to plead with all their might
and enter their temples to pray, it will have no effect.
13This was the word the Lord Yahweh spoke in the past about Moab, 14but now the Lord Yahweh says, “In exactly three years, # 16:14 Or “in three years as the years of [or “counted by”] a hireling.” the splendor of Moab and her huge population will shrink to nothing; only a small and feeble remnant will remain.”
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Learn More About The Passion TranslationIsaiah 16
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1 Send a ram#Possibly “rams” if a scribe accidentally omitted the Hebrew plural ending because the next word begins with that same letter to the ruler of the land,
from Sela across the desert to the mountain of daughter Zion.#Literally “the daughter of Zion”
2And this shall be:
like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest
shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon.
3“Bring counsel,
make a decision;
make your shade like the night
in the middle of noonday.
Hide the outcasts;
you must not betray the fugitive.
4Let my outcasts of Moab dwell as aliens among you;
be a hiding place for them from the presence of the destroyer.”
When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped,
the one who tramples has#Literally “one who tramples have,” with mismatched singular and plural disappeared from the land,
5then a throne shall be established in steadfast love,
and one shall sit on it in faithfulness, in the tent of David,
judging and seeking justice
and zealous for righteousness.
6We have heard of the pride of Moab—exceedingly proud—
of his arrogance, pride, and insolence; his boasting is not true.#Literally “not so his boasting”
7Therefore Moab wails;
all of it wails for Moab,
for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you moan, utterly devastated.#Literally “surely destroyed”
8For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah;
rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils,
they reached up to Jazer,
they wandered to the desert;
her shoots spread abroad,
they crossed over the sea.
9Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah.
I drench you with my tears,#Hebrew “tear” Heshbon and Elealeh,
for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest.
10And joy and gladness are#The Hebrew is singular taken away from the fruitful land,
and in the vineyards no one exults,
no one shouts for joy;
no treader treads wine in the presses;
I have put to an end to the jubilant shout.
11Therefore my heart moans#Literally “intestines moan,”; in Hebrew, the “intestines” are the seat of the emotions, which would correspond to the “heart” in English like a harp for Moab
and my inner parts for Kir-heres.
12And this shall happen:
when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place
and it comes to its sanctuary to pray, it will not prevail.
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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