Isaiah 16:4
The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with you; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for your alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.
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Deuteronomy 24:14And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
Isaiah 14:4And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, + 14:4 Alex. + 'and you shall say in that day' How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
Isaiah 25:10God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.
Isaiah 51:13And you have forgotten God who made you, who made the sky and founded the earth; and you were continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted you: for whereas he counselled to take you away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted you?
Jeremiah 48:8But ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and killed them not in the midst of their brethren.
Zechariah 9:8And I will set up a + 9:8 Or, bulwark. See Zeph. 2:14 defence for my house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall there any more come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I seen with my eyes.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 16:2-6
Exhortations to Moab. ( b. c. 725.) 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. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for… Read the whole commentary →