Isaiah 16:3

Give us etzah (counsel, advice); make pelilah (decision, justice); 1 cast thy tzel as the lailah in the midst of tzahorayim; 1 hide the fugitives; 1 betray not him that is refugee. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

In Context

2For it shall be, that, 1 as an oph noded (wandering bird) cast out of the ken (nest), 1 so the Banot Moav shall be 1 at the fords of the Arnon. 1

4Let fugitives of Moav dwell with thee; 1 be thou a seter (shelter, hiding place) to them from before the shoded (destroyer); 1 for the oppressor is at an end, 1 shod (destruction) ceaseth, 1 the aggressors are consumed out of HaAretz. 1

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Cross References

Judges 9:15And the thornbush said unto the etzim (trees), If b'emes ye anoint me melech over you, then come and take refuge in my tzel (shade): and if not, let eish come out of the thornbush, and devour the cedars of the Levanon.

Psalms 82:3Defend the poor and yatom (fatherless); 1 do justice to the oni (afflicted) and needy. 1

Isaiah 9:6Of the increase of his misrah 1 and shalom there shall be no ketz (end), 1 upon the Kisse Dovid, 1 and upon his kingdom, 1 to strengthen it, and to support it with mishpat 1 and with tzedakah from henceforth 1 even ad olam (forever). 1 The Kinat Hashem Tzva'os will fulfill this. 1

Isaiah 32:2And an ish shall be 1 as a sheltering hiding place from the ruach (wind), 1 and a seter (refuge) from the tempest; 1 as streams of mayim in a dry place, 1 as the tzel (shadow) of a great rock 1 in a weary land. 1

Jeremiah 21:12O Bais Dovid, thus saith Hashem: 1 Execute mishpat in the boker, 1 and save him that is robbed 1 out of the yad oshek (hand of the oppressor), 1 lest My chemah (fury) go out like eish, 1 and burn that none can quench it, 1 because of the wickedness of your deeds. 1

Ezekiel 45:9Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Let it suffice you, O Nasi'im (Princes, Rulers) of Yisroel: remove chamas and oppression, and execute mishpat and tzedakah, take away your gerushot (exactions) from My people, saith Adonoi Hashem.

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 →

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