CHAP. XVI.
1 Moab is exhorted to yeeld obedience to
Christs kingdome. 6 Moab is threatned for
her pride. 9 The Prophet bewaileth her.
12 The iudgement of Moab.
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Against Moab, and Damascus.
1
Send ye the lambe to the
ruler of the land from
note Sela to the wildernesse,
vnto the mount of the
daughter of Zion.
2
For it shalbe that as a wandering
bird note cast out of the nest: so the daughters
of Moab shalbe at the fordes of
Arnon.
3
noteTake counsell, execute Iudgement,
make thy shadow as the night in
the middest of the nooneday, hide the
outcastes, bewray not him that wandereth.
4
Let mine outcasts dwel with thee,
Moab, be thou a couert to them from
the face of the spoiler: for the note extortioner
is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, note the
oppressours are consumed out of the
land.
5
And in mercy shall the throne be
note established, and hee shal note sit vpon it in
trueth, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging
and seeking iudgement, and hasting
righteousnesse.
6
¶ We haue heard of the note pride of
Moab (hee is very proud) euen of his
hautines, and his pride, and his wrath:
but his lies shall not be so.
7
Therefore shall Moab note howle
for Moab, euery one shal howle: for the
foundations of Kir-hareseth shall yee
note mourne, surely they are stricken.
8
For the fieldes of Heshbon languish,
and the vine of Sibmah, the lords
of the heathen haue broken downe the
principall plants thereof, they are
come euen vnto Iazer, they wandred
through the wildernesse, her branches
are note stretched out, they are gone ouer
the sea.
9
¶ Therefore I wil bewaile with
the weeping of Iazer, the Uine of Sibmah
I wil water thee with my teares,
O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for note the shouting
for thy Summer fruits, and for thy
haruest, is fallen.
10
And note gladnesse is taken away,
and ioy out of the plentifull field, and in
the Uineyards there shalbe no singing,
neither shal there be shouting: the treaders
shall tread out no wine in their
presses; I haue made their vintage shouting
to cease.
11
Wherefore my bowels shal sound
like an harpe for Moab, and mine inward
parts for Kir-haresh.
12
¶ And it shal come to passe, when
it is seene that Moab is weary on the
Against Moab, and Damascus.
high place, that hee shall come to his
Sanctuary to pray: but hee shall not
preuaile.
13
This is the word that the Lord
hath spoken concerning Moab since
that time.
14
But now the Lord hath spoken,
saying, Within three yeeres, as the
yeeres of an hireling, and the glory of
Moab shalbe contemned, with all that
great multitude; and the remnant shall
be very small and note feeble.
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