Isaiah 16:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For like wandering birds, like a brood cast out and a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

² The daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon are like orphaned birds pushed from the nest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And this shall be: like a bird fleeing away, and like fledglings flying from the nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the passage of Arnon.

Isaiah 16:2 Cross References

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.

Judges 11:18

Then they journeyed through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down; wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon that Moab is laid waste.

Isaiah 13:14

Like a gazelle on the run or like sheep with no one to gather them, all will turn back to their own people, and all will flee to their own lands.

Joshua 13:16

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

Deuteronomy 3:12

As for the land that we took possession of at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the territory north of Aroer that is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as well as half the hill country of Gilead with its towns,

Deuteronomy 3:8

“So at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon (including the town that is in the wadi itself) as far as Gilead, there was no citadel too high for us. The Lord our God gave everything to us.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives and his daughters captives to an Amorite king, Sihon.

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.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Jeremiah 48:9

Set aside salt for Moab, for she will surely fall; her towns shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

Jeremiah 48:46

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been taken captive and your daughters into captivity.