arch...@jab.org 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. ________________________________________________________________________ Footnotes: [1] {18:3} or, trumpet ________________________________________________________________________ The World English Bible: Messianic Edition is in the Public Domain. This translation is also known as the Hebrew Names Version. "World English Bible," "World English Bible: Messianic Edition," and "World English Bible" are trademarks of Rainbow Missions, Inc., and may only be used as names for the Bible translations so named and distributed by Rainbow Missions, Inc., and faithful copies thereof. 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