Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep-breeder, and he used to render as tribute to the king of Israel the wool of 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams.
Isaiah 16:2 - Tree of Life Version For like fluttering birds, scattered from a nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 The daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon are like orphaned birds pushed from the nest. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it shall come to pass that, as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon. |
Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep-breeder, and he used to render as tribute to the king of Israel the wool of 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams.
Like a fluttering sparrow or a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse does not land.
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man that wanders from his home.
It will be like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one gathering. Each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own country.
Moab is disgraced, indeed shattered. Wail and shriek! Declare by the Arnon, Moab is ruined!
Oy to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished! For your sons are taken away captive and your daughters into exile.
Give wings to Moab, for she must fly and get away. Her cities will become a wasteland, with no one living in them.
Woe to you, O Moab! You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as refugees and his daughters as captives to Sihon, king of the Amorites.
From Aroer which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and the city by the wadi, all the way up to the Gilead, there was not a town too high for us. Adonai our God gave everything over to us.
“This land we took in possession at that time—from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the hill country of the Gilead and its cities—I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.
“So at that time we took from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon.
their territory: from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland up to Medeba,
traveled through the wilderness, around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, came to the east side of the land of Moab and they camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.