Isaiah 16:3

They will cry out, ‘Help us! Tell us what we should do! Protect us completely [MET], we who are running away from our enemies, and do not ◄betray us/tell our enemies where we are►.

Translation for Translators

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

2The women of Moab will be left alone at the ◄fords of/places where people can walk across► the Arnon River; they will be like [SIM] birds that have been pushed out of their nests.

4Allow those of us who are fleeing from Moab to stay with you; hide/protect us from our enemies who want to destroy us!’ Some day there will be no one to oppress us, and our enemies will stop destroying our land.

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Cross References

Judges 9:15“The thornbush replied, ‘If you truly want to appoint me to be your king, come into the shade of my tiny branches. But if you do not want to do that, I hope/desire that fire will come out from me and burn up all the huge cedar trees in Lebanon country!’”

Psalms 82:3You must defend people who are poor and orphans; you must act fairly toward those who are needy and those who have no one to help them.

Isaiah 9:6Another reason that we will rejoice is that a special child will be born for us; a woman will give birth to a son, who will be our ruler. And his names will be ‘Wonderful Counselor’, ‘Mighty/Powerful God’, ‘ Our Everlasting Father’, and ‘Prince/Ruler who enables us to have Peace’.

Isaiah 32:2Each of them will be like [MET] a shelter from the wind and a ◄refuge/place to be protected► from the storm. They will be like [SIM] streams of water in the desert, like the shade under a huge rock in a very hot and dry land.

Jeremiah 21:12This is what he says to you descendants of King David: ‘Every day, make fair decisions for the people whom you judge. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue/Save them from those [SYN] who ◄oppress them/treat them cruelly►. If you do not do that, I will be angry and punish [MTY] you with a fire that will be impossible to extinguish, because of all the sins that you have committed.

Ezekiel 45:9This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: You kings of Israel must stop acting violently and oppressing the people! You must do what is fair and right [DOU]. Stop taking land from the people!

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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