[a]Give us advice, make a decision;
[b]Cast your (A)shadow like night [c]at high noon;
(B)Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.
Let the [d]outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(C)Oppressors have been removed from the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:3 Lit Bring
  2. Isaiah 16:3 Lit Set
  3. Isaiah 16:3 Lit in the midst of the noon
  4. Isaiah 16:4 As in most ancient versions; MT My outcasts, as for Moab

“Make up your mind,” Moab says.
    “Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
    at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,(A)
    do not betray the refugees.
Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
    be their shelter(B) from the destroyer.”

The oppressor(C) will come to an end,
    and destruction will cease;(D)
    the aggressor will vanish from the land.

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Do not neglect (A)hospitality to strangers, for by this some have (B)entertained angels without knowing it.

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Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers,(A) for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.(B)

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