Isaiah 16:4

Let them live among you, the refugees from Moab; 1 be a hiding place for them from the destroyer.” 1 For the oppression will stop, and destruction will cease, 1 those who trample will disappear from the land. 1

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In The King James Version

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

In Context

3“Give instruction, execute justice; provide some shade like night in the middle of the day; 1 hide the fugitives; do not betray the fugitives. 1

5A throne will be established in covenant faithfulness; and one from David's tent will faithfully sit there. 1 He will judge as he seeks justice and does righteousness. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:14You must not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your fellow Israelites, or of the foreigners who are in your land within your city gates;

Isaiah 14:4you will sing this taunt song against the king of Babylon, 1 “How the oppressor has come to an end, the proud fury ended! + 14:4 Instead of the proud fury ended , some versions have the golden city ended , the turmoil ended , the hostility ended , or the arrogance ended . 1

Isaiah 25:10For on this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest; 1 and Moab will be trampled down in his place, even as straw is trampled down in a pit filled with manure. 1

Isaiah 51:13Why have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens 1 and laid the foundations of the earth? You are in constant dread every day 1 because of the hot fury of the oppressor when he decides to destroy. Where is the fury of the oppressor? 1

Jeremiah 48:8For the destroyer will come to every city; no city will escape. 1 So the valley will perish and the plain will be devastated, as Yahweh has said. 1

Zechariah 9:8I will camp around my land against enemy armies, + 9:8 Most interpreters translate the Hebrew words as against enemy armies and some translate the Hebrew as a guard, and so translate the phrase, I will surround my temple as a guard . so no one can pass through or return, for no oppressor will overrun them, for now I see with my own eyes! 1

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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