53 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
53 lines
2.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 16
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1 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
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From Sela to the wilderness,
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To the mount of the daughter of Zion.
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2 For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest;
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So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
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3 “Take counsel, execute judgment;
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Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;
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Hide the outcasts,
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Do not betray him who escapes.
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4 Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;
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Be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler.
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For the extortioner is at an end,
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Devastation ceases,
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The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
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5 In mercy the throne will be established;
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And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
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Judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness.”
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6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—
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He is very proud—
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Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
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But his lies shall not be so.
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7 Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;
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Everyone shall wail.
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For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
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Surely they are stricken.
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8 For the fields of Heshbon languish,
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And the vine of Sibmah;
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The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,
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Which have reached to Jazer
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And wandered through the wilderness.
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Her branches are stretched out,
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They are gone over the sea.
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9 Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,
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With the weeping of Jazer;
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I will drench you with my tears,
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O Heshbon and Elealeh;
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For battle cries have fallen
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Over your summer fruits and your harvest.
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10 Gladness is taken away,
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And joy from the plentiful field;
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In the vineyards there will be no singing,
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Nor will there be shouting;
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No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
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I have made their shouting cease.
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11 Therefore my heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,
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And my inner being for Kir Heres.
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12 And it shall come to pass,
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When it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,
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That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;
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But he will not prevail.
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13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time.
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14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.” |