Isaiah 16:2

Good News Translation

They wait on the banks of the Arnon River and move aimlessly back and forth, like birds driven from their nest.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:4

King Mesha of Moab raised sheep, and every year he gave as tribute to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool from 100,000 sheep.

Proverbs 26:2

Curses cannot hurt you unless you deserve them. They are like birds that fly by and never light.

Proverbs 27:8

Anyone away from home is like a bird away from its nest.

Isaiah 13:14

“The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd.

Jeremiah 48:20

‘Moab has fallen,’ they will answer, ‘weep for it; it is disgraced. Announce along the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed!’

Jeremiah 48:46

Pity the people of Moab! The people who worshiped Chemosh have been destroyed, and their sons and daughters have been taken away as prisoners.

Jeremiah 48:9

Set up a tombstone for Moab; it will soon be destroyed. Its towns will be left in ruins, and no one will live there again.” (

Numbers 21:29

How terrible for you, people of Moab! You worshipers of Chemosh are brought to ruin! Your god let the men become refugees, And the women became captives of the Amorite king.

Deuteronomy 2:36

The Lord our God let us capture all the towns from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and the city in the middle of that valley, all the way to Gilead. No town had walls too strong for us.

Deuteronomy 3:12

“When we took possession of the land, I assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad the territory north of the town of Aroer near the Arnon River and part of the hill country of Gilead, along with its towns.

Deuteronomy 3:8

“At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon. (

Joshua 13:16

Their territory extended to Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and the city in the middle of that valley and included all the plateau around Medeba.

Judges 11:18

Then they went on through the desert, going around the land of Edom and the land of Moab until they came to the east side of Moab, on the other side of the Arnon River. They camped there, but they did not cross the Arnon because it was the boundary of Moab.