[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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
[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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
[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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
[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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
[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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
[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition
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
[HNV] Isaiah 16, World English Bible: Messianic Edition (also known as the Hebrew Names Version)
Yeshaiyahu, 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 Tziyon. {16:2} For it
will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the
daughters of Mo'av 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 Mo'av, 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 Mo'av, that he is very proud;
even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are
nothing. {16:7} Therefore Mo'av will wail for Mo'av. Everyone will
wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-Hareset, utterly
stricken. {16:8} For the fields of Cheshbon languish with the vine of
Sivmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches,
which reached even to Ya`zer, 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 Ya`zer for the vine of Sivmah. I will
water you with my tears, Cheshbon, and El`aleh: 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 Mo'av, and my inward parts
for Kir-Heres. {16:12} It will happen that when Mo'av 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 Mo'av 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 Mo'av 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
`Aro`er are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down,
and none shall make them afraid. {17:3} The fortress shall cease from
Efrayim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They
will be as the glory of the children of Yisra'el, says the LORD of
Armies. {17:4} It will happen in that day that the glory of Ya`akov
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 Refa'im. {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 Yisra'el. {17:7} In that day, people
will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the
Holy One of Yisra'el. {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 Yisra'el; and it will be a desolation. {17:10} For you
have forgotten the God of your [1]yeshu`ah[1], 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 Kush; {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,
