Like fleeing birds,
    like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
    at (A)the fords of the Arnon.

“Give counsel;
    grant justice;
(B)make your shade like night
    at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
    do not reveal the fugitive;
let (C)the outcasts of Moab
    sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them[a]
    from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
    and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; Masoretic Text let my outcasts sojourn among you; as for Moab, be a shelter to them

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