Isaiah 16:1
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
- KJV
- Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- WEB
- Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
- ASV
- Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- DARBY
- Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
- BLB
- Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela [in] the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
- ÅB
- Send landsherren de lam han skal ha, fra Sela gjennom ørkenen til Sions datters berg!
- OTB
- Send lam som hyllest til landets hersker, fra Sela, gjennom ørkenen, til fjellet til Sions datter.
- B1930
- Send landsherren de lam han skal ha, fra Sela gjennem ørkenen til Sions datters berg!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 10:32
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Read in context2 Kings 3:4
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
Read in context2 Kings 14:7
He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
Read in context2 Samuel 8:2
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
Read in contextEzra 7:17
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Read in contextIsaiah 42:11
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Read in contextMicah 4:8
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
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