Isaiah 16

1Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:2 · 2Ki 3:4 · 2Ki 14:7 · Ezra 7:17 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 42:11 · +1 more

2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.Cross-references: Num 21:13 · Deut 2:36 · Deut 3:8 · Deut 3:12 · Josh 13:16 · Judg 11:18 · +3 more

3Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!Cross-references: Judg 9:15 · 1Ki 18:4 · Ps 82:3 · Isa 1:17 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 25:4 · +11 more

4Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.Cross-references: Deut 23:15 · Deut 24:14 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 15:6 · Isa 25:10 · +11 more

5A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:9 · 2Sam 7:16 · 2Sam 23:3 · 1Ki 10:9 · 2Chr 31:20 · Ps 61:6 · +24 more

6We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.Cross-references: Isa 2:11 · Isa 28:15 · Isa 28:18 · Isa 44:25 · Jer 48:26 · Jer 48:29 · +6 more

7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.Cross-references: 2Ki 3:25 · 1Chr 16:3 · Isa 8:19 · Isa 15:1 · Isa 16:11 · Jer 48:20

8For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.Cross-references: Num 32:3 · Num 32:38 · Josh 13:19 · Josh 13:25 · 2Sam 1:21 · Isa 10:7 · +5 more

9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.Cross-references: Judg 9:27 · Isa 9:3 · Isa 15:4 · Jer 40:10 · Jer 40:12 · Jer 48:32

10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.Cross-references: Judg 9:27 · Job 24:11 · Isa 24:7 · Isa 32:10 · Jer 48:33 · Amos 5:11 · +3 more

11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.Cross-references: Isa 15:5 · Isa 63:15 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 31:20 · Jer 48:36 · Hos 11:8 · +1 more

12It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.Cross-references: Num 22:39 · Num 22:41 · Num 23:14 · Num 23:28 · Num 24:17 · 1Ki 11:7 · +15 more

13This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.Cross-references: Isa 44:8

14But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”Cross-references: Gen 31:1 · Deut 15:8 · Esth 5:11 · Isa 7:16 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 17:4 · +7 more