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The ambassadors, who accompany the gift to Jerusalem[a] plead for advice and help. “Give us sanctuary. Protect us. Do not turn us over to our foes. 4-5 Let our outcasts stay among you; hide them from our enemies! God will reward you for your kindness to us. If you let Moab’s fugitives settle among you, then when the terror is past, God will establish David’s throne forever, and on that throne he will place a just and righteous King.”

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  1. Isaiah 16:3 The ambassadors, who accompany the gift to Jerusalem, implied.

“Make up your mind,” Moab says.
    “Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
    at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,(A)
    do not betray the refugees.
Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
    be their shelter(B) from the destroyer.”

The oppressor(C) will come to an end,
    and destruction will cease;(D)
    the aggressor will vanish from the land.
In love a throne(E) will be established;(F)
    in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
    one from the house[a] of David(G)
one who in judging seeks justice(H)
    and speeds the cause of righteousness.

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  1. Isaiah 16:5 Hebrew tent