Isaiah 16:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of daughter Zion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ YOU [Moabites, now fugitives in Edom, which is ruled by the king of Judah] send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela or Petra through the desert and wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion [Jerusalem]. [II Kings 3:4, 5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Common English Bible

¹ Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela through the desert to the mountain of Daughter Zion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ O Lord, send forth the Lamb, the Ruler of the earth, from the Rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 16:1 Cross References

Isaiah 10:32

This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

2 Kings 3:4

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder who used to deliver to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.

2 Kings 14:7

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm; he called it Jokthe-el, which is its name to this day.

2 Samuel 8:2

He also defeated the Moabites and, making them lie down on the ground, measured them off with a cord; he measured two lengths of cord for those who were to be put to death and one length for those who were to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

Isaiah 42:11

Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the inhabitants of Sela shout for joy; let them shout from the tops of the mountains.

Ezra 7:17

With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs and their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem.

Micah 4:8

And you, O tower of the flock, hill of daughter Zion, to you it shall come, the former dominion shall come, the sovereignty of daughter Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 45:16

All the people of the land shall join in making this offering in Israel through the prince.