Isaiah

¹ From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

² The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

³ Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees.

⁴ Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.” For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased, Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

⁵ And a judge will sit on it in truth in the tent of David; Moreover, he will seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.

⁶ Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false.

⁷ You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir‑hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.

⁸ The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts; Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

⁹ I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

¹⁰ In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation, No treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.

¹¹ And my inward feelings for Kir‑hareseth.

¹² When he wearies himself upon his high place And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail.

¹³ This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab.

¹⁴ But now Yahweh speaks, saying, “Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty.”