Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her bars reach unto Zoar; a heifer of three years old: for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping doth he go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations; the grass is withered, the herbage is consumed, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and their treasure, shall they carry away over the brook of willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of ’ Moab; her howling (hath reached) unto Eglaim, and to Beer-elim her howling.

9 For ’waters of Dimon are full of blood; forI will bring more upon Dimon, a lion for the escaped of Moab, and for the remnant of the land.

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.