Isaiah:16

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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 . * For it shall be that , as wandering birds , as a scattered nest , so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon . * 'Give counsel , execute justice ; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts ; betray not the fugitive . * 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 ; * 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 . * 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 . * Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab , every one shall wail ; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn , sorely stricken . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Wherefore my heart moaneth like a harp for Moab , and mine inward parts for Kir-heres . * 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 prevail * This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past . * But now the LORD 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 .'

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