Isaiah 16:3

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 16:3

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

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KJV

King James Version

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

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WEB

World English Bible

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

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ASV

American Standard Version

Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Isaiah 16

¹ Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.

² Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

³ “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

⁴ Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,

⁵ in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

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