Isaiah 16

¹Send the tribute lambs

²Like fluttering birds

³“Give us counsel;

⁴Let my fugitives stay with you;

⁵in loving devotion 16:5 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant. a throne will be established

⁶We have heard of Moab’s pomposity,

⁷Therefore let Moab wail;

⁸For the fields of Heshbon have withered,

⁹So I weep with Jazer

¹⁰Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard;

¹¹Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp,

¹²When Moab appears on the high place,

¹³This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

¹⁴And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”