Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 016
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Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from the crags
that are toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion
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For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered
nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon
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'Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the
night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive
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Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a
covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end,
spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land
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And a throne is established through mercy, and there
sitteth thereon in truth, in the tent of David, one that judgeth, and seeketh
justice, and is ready in righteousness
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We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud; even
of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, his ill-founded boastings
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Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail;
for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, sorely stricken
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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah,
whose choice plants did overcome the lords of nations; they reached even unto
Jazer, they wandered into the wilderness; her branches were spread abroad, they
passed over the sea
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Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the
vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; for
upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen
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And gladness and joy are taken away out of the fruitful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be
shouting; no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the
vintage shout to cease
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Wherefore my heart moaneth like a harp for Moab, and mine
inward parts for Kir-heres
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And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath
wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to
pray; but he shall not prevai
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This is the word that HaShem spoke concerning Moab in time
past
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But now HaShem hath spoken, saying: 'Within three years,
as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all
his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.
Book 12 : NEVIIM - ISAIAH - Chapter 016
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