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Isaiah 16:4

Good News Translation

Let us stay in your land. Protect us from those who want to destroy us.” (Oppression and destruction will end, and those who are devastating the country will be gone.

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When he does this, they are to mock the king of Babylon and say: “The cruel king has fallen! He will never oppress anyone again!

Nimrim Brook is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left.

The Lord will protect Mount Zion, but the people of Moab will be trampled down the way straw is trampled in manure.

Our enemies are doomed! They have robbed and betrayed, although no one has robbed them or betrayed them. But their time to rob and betray will end, and they themselves will become victims of robbery and treachery.

I will make your oppressors kill each other; they will be drunk with murder and rage. Then all people will know that I am the Lord, the one who saves you and sets you free. They will know that I am Israel's powerful God.”

Have you forgotten the Lord who made you, who stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations? Why should you live in constant fear of the fury of those who oppress you, of those who are ready to destroy you? Their fury can no longer touch you.

Justice and right will make you strong. You will be safe from oppression and terror.

Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives.

For you have broken the yoke that burdened them and the rod that beat their shoulders. You have defeated the nation that oppressed and exploited your people, just as you defeated the army of Midian long ago.

Meanwhile, all the Israelites who were in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and other countries, heard that the king of Babylonia had allowed some Israelites to stay on in Judah and that he had made Gedaliah their governor.

You that live in Dibon, come down from your place of honor and sit on the ground in the dust; Moab's destroyer is here and has left its forts in ruins.

Not a town will escape the destruction; both valley and plain will be ruined. I, the Lord, have spoken.

You should not have stood at the crossroads to catch those trying to escape. You should not have handed them over to the enemy on the day of their distress.

The people of Judah will be victorious like soldiers who trample their enemies in the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will defeat even the enemy cavalry.

I will guard my land and keep armies from passing through it. I will not allow tyrants to oppress my people any more. I have seen how my people have suffered.”

On the day when I act, you will overcome the wicked, and they will be like dust under your feet.

Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.

And God, our source of peace, will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

“Do not cheat poor and needy hired servants, whether they are Israelites or foreigners living in one of your towns.

But do not measure the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.




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