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People from Moab were forced to leave their homes.
    So let them live in your land.
    Hide them from their enemies.”

The robbing will stop.
    The enemy will be defeated.
    The men who hurt the people will be gone from the land.
Then a new king will come.
    He will be from David’s family.[a]
    He will be loyal, loving, and kind.
He will be a king who judges fairly.
    He will do what is right and good.

We have heard that the people of Moab
    are very proud and conceited.
They are hot-tempered braggers,
    but their boasts are only empty words.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:5 David’s family The royal family of Judah. God promised that men from David’s family would be kings in Judah.

Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
    be their shelter(A) from the destroyer.”

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

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

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  1. Isaiah 16:5 Hebrew tent