Isaiah 16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹ Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Tziyon.

² For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Mo'av be at the fords of the Arnon.

³ Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the fugitive!

⁴ Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Mo'av, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

⁵ A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Mo'av, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

⁷ Therefore Mo'av will wail for Mo'av. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-Hareset, utterly stricken.

⁸ For the fields of Cheshbon languish with the vine of Sivmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Ya`zer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

⁹ Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Ya`zer for the vine of Sivmah. I will water you with my tears, Cheshbon, and El`aleh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

¹⁰ Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

¹¹ Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Mo'av, and my inward parts for Kir-Heres.

¹² It will happen that when Mo'av presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

¹³ This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Mo'av in time past.

¹⁴ But now the LORD has spoken, saying, *Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Mo'av shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.*