Isaiah, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the
wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. {16:2} For it
will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the
daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. {16:3} Give counsel!
Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the
noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the fugitive! {16:4} Let my
outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from
the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing.
Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
{16:5} A 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.
{16:6} We 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. {16:7} Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail.
You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.
{16:8} For 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. {16:9} Therefore 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. {16:10} Gladness 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. {16:11} Therefore my
heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
{16:12} It 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. {16:13} This is the word that the LORD spoke
concerning Moab in time past. {16:14} But now the LORD 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."
{17:1} The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from
being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap. {17:2} The cities of
Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and
none shall make them afraid. {17:3} The fortress shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They
will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says the LORD of
Hosts. {17:4} "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will
be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. {17:5} It
will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps
the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of
Rephaim. {17:6} Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of
an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough,
four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says the
LORD, the God of Israel. {17:7} In that day, people will look to their
Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
{17:8} They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands;
neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either
the Asherim, or the incense altars. {17:9} In that day, their strong
cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the
mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel;
and it will be a desolation. {17:10} For you have forgotten the God of
your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength.
Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
{17:11} In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning,
you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of
grief and of desperate sorrow. {17:12} Ah, the uproar of many peoples,
who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations,
that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! {17:13} The nations will
rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and
they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the
mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the
storm. {17:14} At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they
are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot
of those who rob us.
{18:1} Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia; {18:2} that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning
onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the
rivers divide!" {18:3} All you inhabitants of the world, and you
dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains,
look! When the [1>]shofar[<1] is blown, listen! {18:4} For the LORD
said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place,
like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of
harvest." {18:5} For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and
the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with
pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading
branches. {18:6} They will be left together for the ravenous birds of
the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds
will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on
them. {18:7} In that time, a present will be brought to the LORD of
Hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from
their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down,
whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of
Hosts, Mount Zion.
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Footnotes:
[1] {18:3} or, trumpet
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