Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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...)

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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.

[*](4. So, altering vowel-points. Heb. text, ‘Let my outcasts, Moab, dwell with ’)[*](6. ‘not so,’ i.e. unreal,)[*](7. Less probably, ‘foundations of Kir-haresheth.)[*](8. Some render: ‘her choice plants struck down the lords,’ c. of drunkenness).)

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10 And taken away is joy, and gladness, from the garden land; and iri the vineyards there is no singing, no calling; the treader treadeth no wine in the presses; I have made shouting to cease.

11 Therefore my bowels shall sound like the harp for Moab, and mine inward. parts for Kir-hares.

12 And it shall be, when Moab hath appeared, when he hath wearied himself upon the high place, and entereth his sanctuary to pray, (then) he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab hitherto:

14 And now the LORD hath spoken, saying: Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all the great multitude; and the. remnant shall be small, little, not strong.