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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 16 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Isaiah 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/15.htm" title="Isaiah 15">◄</a> Isaiah 16 <a href="../isaiah/17.htm" title="Isaiah 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Moab's Hopeless Situation</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_16_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.1" class="v23_16_1">1</span>From the city of Sela in the desert the people of Moab send a lamb as a present to the one who rules in Jerusalem. </span><span class="v23_16_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.2" class="v23_16_2">2</span>They wait on the banks of the Arnon River and move aimlessly back and forth, like birds driven from their nest.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_16_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.3" class="v23_16_3">3</span>They say to the people of Judah, “Tell us what to do. Protect us like a tree that casts a cool shadow in the heat of noon, and let us rest in your shade. We are refugees; hide us where no one can find us. </span><span class="v23_16_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.4" class="v23_16_4">4</span>Let us stay in your land. Protect us from those who want to destroy us.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_16_4">(Oppression and destruction will end, and those who are devastating the country will be gone. </span><span class="v23_16_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.5" class="v23_16_5">5</span>Then one of David's descendants will be king, and he will rule the people with faithfulness and love. He will be quick to do what is right, and he will see that justice is done.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_16_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.6" class="v23_16_6">6</span>The people of Judah say, “We have heard how proud the people of Moab are. We know that they are arrogant and conceited, but their boasts are empty.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_16_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.7" class="v23_16_7">7</span>The people of Moab will weep because of the troubles they suffer. They will all weep when they remember the fine food they used to eat in the city of Kir Heres. They will be driven to despair. </span><span class="v23_16_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.8" class="v23_16_8">8</span>The farms near Heshbon and the vineyards of Sibmah are destroyed—those vineyards whose wine used to make the rulers of the nations drunk. At one time the vines spread as far as the city of Jazer, and eastward into the desert, and westward to the other side of the Dead Sea. </span><span class="v23_16_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.9" class="v23_16_9">9</span>Now I weep for Sibmah's vines as I weep for Jazer. My tears fall for Heshbon and Elealeh, because there is no harvest to make the people glad. </span><span class="v23_16_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.10" class="v23_16_10">10</span>No one is happy now in the fertile fields. No one shouts or sings in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes to make wine; the shouts of joy are ended.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.16.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v23_16_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.11" class="v23_16_11">11</span>I groan with sadness for Moab, with grief for Kir Heres. </span><span class="v23_16_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.12" class="v23_16_12">12</span>The people of Moab wear themselves out going to their mountain shrines and to their temples to pray, but it will do them no good.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_16_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.13" class="v23_16_13">13</span>That is the message the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave earlier about Moab. </span><span class="v23_16_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.16.14" class="v23_16_14">14</span>And now the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “In exactly three years Moab's great wealth will disappear. Of its many people, only a few will survive, and they will be weak.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.10: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the shouts of joy are ended; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I have ended the shouts of joy.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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