Yesha`yahu, 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
shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the
daughters of Mo'av 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 Mo'av, 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 Mo'av, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and
his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing. {16:7} Therefore
shall Mo'av wail for Mo'av, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes
of Kir-Hareset shall you mourn, utterly stricken. {16:8} For the
fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sivmah; the lords of the
nations have broken down the choice branches of it, 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, Heshbon, and El`aleh: 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 Mo'av, and my inward parts for Kir-Heres.
{16:12} It shall happen, when Mo'av 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 the LORD
spoke concerning Mo'av in time past. {16:14} But now the LORD has
spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the
glory of Mo'av 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 Dammesek. Behold, Dammesek is taken away from
being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. {17:2} The cities of
`Aro`er are forsaken; they shall 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 Dammesek, and the remnant of Aram; they
shall be as the glory of the children of Yisra'el, says the LORD of
Hosts. {17:4} It shall happen in that day, that the glory of Ya`akov
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 Refa'im. {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 the LORD, the God of Yisra'el. {17:7} In that
day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Yisra'el. {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 Yisra'el; 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 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, 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 [1>]eretz[<1], when an ensign is lifted up on the
mountains, look; and when the [2>]shofar[<2] is blown, listen. {18:4}
For thus has 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 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
[3>]eretz[<3]; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all
the animals of the [4>]eretz[<4] shall winter on them. {18:7} In that
time shall a present 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
Tziyon.
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Footnotes:
[1] {18:3} earth
[2] {18:3} trumpet
[3] {18:6} earth
[4] {18:6} earth
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