Isaiah, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Send you 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
shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the
daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. {16:3} Give counsel,
execute justice; make your shade as 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 covert to 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 shall be established in loving kindness; and one shall
sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and 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, and his
pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing. {16:7} Therefore
shall Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of
Kir Hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken. {16:8} For the fields
of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the
nations have broken down the choice branches of it, 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 is fallen. {16:10} Gladness is taken away,
and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be
no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the
presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease. {16:11} Why my
heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
{16:12} It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies
himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray,
that he shall not prevail. {16:13} This is the word that Yahweh spoke
concerning Moab in time past. {16:14} But now Yahweh has spoken,
saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of
Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and
the remnant shall be very small and of no account.
{17:1} The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from
being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. {17:2} The cities of
Aroer are forsaken; they shall 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
shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says Yahweh of Hosts.
{17:4} It shall happen in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. {17:5} It
shall be as when the harvester gathers the standing grain, and his arm
reaps the ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley
of Rephaim. {17:6} Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the
shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the
uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful
tree, says Yahweh, the God of Israel. {17:7} In that day shall men
look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One
of Israel. {17:8} They shall not look to the altars, the work of their
hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers
have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images. {17:9} In that day
shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on
the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of
Israel; and it shall be a desolation. {17:10} For you have forgotten
the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of
your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with
strange slips. {17:11} In the day of your planting you hedge it in,
and in the morning you make your seed to 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 shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he
shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as
the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust
before the storm. {17:14} At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the
morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil 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 an ensign is lifted up on the mountains,
look; and when the trumpet is blown, listen. {18:4} For thus has
Yahweh 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 the spreading branches will he take
away [and] cut down. {18:6} They shall be left together to the
ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth; and
the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the
earth shall winter on them. {18:7} In that time shall a present be
brought to Yahweh 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 Yahweh of Hosts, Mount Zion.
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