Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
    be their shelter from the destroyer.’

The oppressor will come to an end,
    and destruction will cease;
    the aggressor will vanish from the land.
In love a throne will be established;
    in faithfulness a man will sit on it –
    one from the house[a] of David –
one who in judging seeks justice
    and speeds the cause of righteousness.

We have heard of Moab’s pride –
    how great is her arrogance! –
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
    but her boasts are empty.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:5 Hebrew tent