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And this shall be:

like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest
    shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon.
“Bring counsel,
    make a decision;
make your shade like the night
    in the middle of noonday.
Hide the outcasts;
    you must not betray the fugitive.
Let my outcasts of Moab dwell as aliens among you;
    be a hiding place for them from the presence of the destroyer.”
When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped,
    the one who tramples has[a] disappeared from the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:4 Literally “one who tramples have,” with mismatched singular and plural