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Like fluttering birds,
    like an abandoned nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
    at the fords of the Arnon River.[a]

“Give us advice;
    reach a decision!
Cast your shadow as if night had come
    at high noon.
Shelter the fugitives,
    And don’t betray a single refugee.
Let the fugitives[b] from Moab
    settle among you;
be a shelter to them
    from the destroyer.

When the oppressor comes to an end,
    and destruction has[c] ceased,
        and the marauder[d] has[e] vanished from the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:2 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks River
  2. Isaiah 16:4 So 1QIsaa; MT reads my fugitives
  3. Isaiah 16:4 So 1QIsaa; MT reads have
  4. Isaiah 16:4 Lit. the one who tramples underfoot
  5. Isaiah 16:4 So 1QIsaa; MT reads have