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SEPTEMBER 12
Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab—
will cry out; He is very proud—
His life will be burdensome to him. Of his haughtiness and his pride and
his wrath;
5 “My heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar, 7 But his lies shall not be so.
Like a three-year-old heifer. Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab;
For by the Ascent of Luhith Everyone shall wail.
They will go up with weeping; For the foundations of Kir Hareseth
For in the way of Horonaim you shall mourn;
They will raise up a cry of destruction, Surely they are stricken.
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For the waters of Nimrim will be 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish,
desolate, And the vine of Sibmah;
For the green grass has withered The lords of the nations have broken
away; down its choice plants,
The grass fails, there is nothing green. Which have reached to Jazer
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Therefore the abundance they have And wandered through the wilderness.
gained, Her branches are stretched out,
And what they have laid up, They are gone over the sea.
They will carry away to the Brook of 9 Therefore I will bewail the vine of
the Willows.
For the cry has gone all around the With the weeping of Jazer;
8 Sibmah,
borders of Moab, I will drench you with my tears,
Its wailing to Eglaim O Heshbon and Elealeh;
And its wailing to Beer Elim.
9 For battle cries have fallen
For the waters of Dimon will be full of
blood; Over your summer fruits and your
Because I will bring more upon Dimon, harvest.
Lions upon him who escapes from
Moab,
And on the remnant of the land.”
16:9 I will bewail. Isaiah displayed genuine
16 Send the lamb to the ruler emotion over the destruction of so rich an
of the land,
From Sela to the wilderness, agricultural resource. This reflected the Lord’s
response, too.
To the mount of the daughter
of Zion.
For it shall be as a wandering bird
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thrown out of the nest; 10
So shall be the daughters of Moab at Gladness is taken away,
And joy from the plentiful field;
the fords of the Arnon.
In the vineyards there will be no
3 “Take counsel, execute judgment; singing,
Make your shadow like the night Nor will there be shouting;
in the middle of the day; No treaders will tread out wine in the
Hide the outcasts, presses;
Do not betray him who escapes. I have made their shouting cease.
Let My outcasts dwell with you,
4 11 Therefore my heart shall resound like
O Moab; a harp for Moab,
Be a shelter to them from the face of And my inner being for Kir Heres.
the spoiler. 12 And it shall come to pass,
For the extortioner is at an end, When it is seen that Moab is weary on
Devastation ceases, the high place,
The oppressors are consumed out of That he will come to his sanctuary
the land.
5 In mercy the throne will be to pray;
established; But he will not prevail.
And One will sit on it in truth, in the 13 This is the word which the LORD has spo-
tabernacle of David, ken concerning Moab since that time. But
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Judging and seeking justice and now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within
hastening righteousness.” three years, as the years of a hired man, the

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