[a]Give us advice, make a decision;
[b]Cast your (A)shadow like night [c]at high noon;
(B)Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.
“Let the [d]outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(C)Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:3 Lit Bring
  2. Isaiah 16:3 Lit Set
  3. Isaiah 16:3 Lit in the midst of the noon
  4. Isaiah 16:4 So the versions; M.T. My outcasts, as for Moab