XVI. 1. Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2. ‘house,’ i.e. temple.4. ‘armed’ (loin-girt). ‘trembleth,’ or, ‘is grieved.5. ‘bars,’ i.e. protections: vectes, Vulg. ‘fugitives,’ A.V. and several modems, against vowelopoints: R.V. interprets ‘bars’ to mean ‘nobles.’ Cf. xliii. 14, where A.V. and R.V. reverse their renderings.7. Or, ‘unto the brook...9. ‘land’: or, ‘ground’ (Heb. Adamah: treated as proper name by Lxx.).1. Or ‘lambs’ (collective) ‘of the ruler...

2 And it shall be, like wandering birds, a scattered nest, shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.

3 Apply counsel, execute a decision; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.

4 Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with thee; be thou a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner is brought to an end, destruction is ﬁnished, the trampler is consumed out of the land.

5 And a throne is established in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and swift to do righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, proud ekceedingly; his proudness, and his pride, and his wrath; not so are his boastings.

7 Therefore Moab shall howl for Moab, altogether shall he howl; for the raisin cakes of Kir-haresheth shall ye mourn, utterly smltten.

8 For the ﬁelds of Heshbon languish; the vine of Sibmah, the lords of nations struck down her choice plants; they reached unto Jazer, they strayed into the wilderness; her offshoots spread abroad, they went over the Sea.

9 Therefore I will weep with theweeping of Jazer (for) the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, OHeshbon and Elealeh; for on thy summer fruit and on thy harvest shouting is fallen.