Isaiah 16:1-14
16 Send ye the lamb due to the ruler of the land From Sela towards the desert,—Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion;
2 Yet shall it be that—Like wandering birds from a nest cast forth Shall be the daughters of Moab, at the fords of Arnon.
3 Bring thou in counsel, Execute thou judgment, Make as the night thy shadow in the midst of high noon,—Hide thou the outcasts, The wanderer do not thou reveal.
4 Let mine own outcasts sojourn with thee, O Moab, become thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler,—For vanished is the oppressor, At an end is extortion, They who tread down have ceased out of the land.
5 So shall be established in lovingkindness a throne, And one shall sit thereon in truth in the home of David,—Judging—and seeking justice and speeding righteousness.
6 We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Proud exceedingly! His haughtiness and his arrogance and his passion, Not true are his boastings.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, All that belong to her shall wail,—For the ruins of Kir-hareseth shall they moan out, Utterly stricken!
8 For the fields of Heshbon are withered—The vine of Sibmah, The owners of nations have broken off ruddy branches, Unto Jazer had they reached, They had spread abroad to the desert,—Her boughs had stretched forth, had gone over to the sea.
9 For this cause will I bewail in the wailing of Jazer The vine of Sibmah, I will drench thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh,—For upon thy fruit-harvest and upon thy grain-harvest the battle-shout hath fallen.
10 Now shall be withdrawn rejoicing and exultation out of the garden-land, And in the vineyards shall be neither singing nor shouting,—Wine in the winepress the treader shall not tread, The vintage-shout have I made to cease.
11 For this cause mine inward parts—for Moab like a lyre shall make a plaintive sound,—Yea what is within me for Kir-heres.
12 And it shall be—When it is seen that Moab hath laboured in vain on the high place He shall enter into his holy place to pray and shall not prevail.
13 This is the word which Yahweh spake concerning Moab in time past;
14 But now hath Yahweh spoken saying, In three years,—as the years of a hireling shall the glory of Moab be diminished, with all the great multitude,—even a very small remnant of no account.