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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Moab’s Destruction<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../zephaniah/2.htm#8">Zephaniah 2:8–11</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Send ye a lamb to the ruler to the land, from the rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it shall be as the bird fleeing, the nest cast out, the daughters of Moab shall be from the passages to Arnon.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bring ye counsel, do judgment; place as the night thy shadow in the midst of noon; hide the driven out; thou shalt not betray the fugitive.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The outcast shall dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covering to them from the face of him laying waste: for the oppressor ceased, violence was finished, the treaders-down were consumed out of the land.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the throne was set up in mercy: and he sat upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For this shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of the wall of Haresheth shall ye sigh; surely they were smitten.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For the fields of Heshbon languished, the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations struck its vine of purple grapes, they reached even to Jazer, they wandered to the desert: her sprouts were thrust out, they passed over the sea.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealah: for upon thy fruit harvest and upon thy harvest the vintage shout fell.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And joy and gladness was taken away from Carmel, and in the vineyards there shall be no shout for joy, there shall be no cry with a loud voice: and he treading shall not tread out wine in the wine-vat: I caused the vintage shout to cease.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For this my bowels shall sound as a harp for Moab, and my inner parts for the wall of Haresh.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And it was when it was seen that Moab was weary upon the height, and coming to his holy place to pray and he shall not be able.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>This the word which Jehovah spake to Moab from that time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And now Jehovah spake, saying, In three years as the years of a hireling and the honor of Moab despised with with all the great multitude; 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