Isaiah

1Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

3Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

4Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

6We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

8For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

12It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

13This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.

14But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

1từ Xe-la qua sa mạc đến núi của thiếu nữ Xi-on.

2thiếu nữ Mô-áp sẽ chạy trốn như đàn chim vỡ tổ.

3và đừng tố giác những người chạy trốn.

4và kẻ giày xéo xứ sở biến đi,

5và mau mắn thực hiện lẽ công minh.

6cùng những lời ngu ngốc của nó, chúng ta đều biết cả.

7tiếc những cái bánh nho ở Kia Kha-re-xét,

8nhánh của nó toả ra vượt qua biển cả.

9vào thời ngươi hái nho và gặt lúa, tiếng hát câu hò đâu còn nữa !

10câu hò tiếng hát cũng im bặt.

11và vì Kia Khe-rét, ruột gan ta bồi hồi.

12có vào Thánh Điện để nguyện cầu, cũng chỉ luống công thôi.

13Đó là lời ĐỨC CHÚA phán từ xưa về Mô-áp.

14Và giờ đây ĐỨC CHÚA lại phán : Theo cách tính của người làm thuê thì còn đúng ba năm nữa, vinh quang của Mô-áp sẽ tàn tạ ; dù có đông vô số, dân nó cũng sẽ chỉ còn một số ít, rất ít, hầu như không đáng kể.