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Then, like [a](A)fleeing birds or scattered [b]nestlings,
The daughters of (B)Moab will be at the fords of the (C)Arnon.
“Bring us counsel, make a decision;
[c]Cast your (D)shadow like night [d]at high noon;
(E)Hide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees.
Let the [e]banished of Moab sojourn with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(F)Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:2 Or fluttering
  2. Isaiah 16:2 Lit nest
  3. Isaiah 16:3 Lit Set
  4. Isaiah 16:3 Lit in the midst of the noon
  5. Isaiah 16:4 As in the versions; M.T. My banished ones, as for Moab