Isaiah 16

1 Send yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde from the rocke of the wildernesse, vnto the mountaine of the daughter Zion.

١ أَيُّهَا الْهَارِبُونَ مِنْ مُوآبَ إِلَى سَالِعَ فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ، أَرْسِلُوا حُمْلاناً إِلَى مَلِكِ يَهُوذَا فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ (طَلَباً لِلْحِمَايَةِ قَائِلِينَ):

2 For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes of Arnon.

٢ نِسَاءُ مُوآبَ عَلَى ضِفَافِ أَرْنُونَ مِثْلُ الطُّيُورِ التَّائِهَةِ أَوِ الفِرَاخِ الشَّارِدَةِ.

3 Gather a cousel, execute iudgement: make thy shadowe as the night in the midday: hide them that are chased out: bewray not him that is fled.

٣ فَانْصَحْنَا، أَنْصِفْنَا، لِيَكُنْ ظِلُّكَ عَلَيْنَا فِي الظَّهِيرَةِ كَاللَّيْلِ فَتَسْتُرَ مَنْفِيِّينَا عَنْ عُيُونِ أَعْدَائِنَا وَلا تَشِي بِاللّاجِئِينَ مِنَّا.

4 Let my banished dwell with thee: Moab be thou their couert from the face of the destroyer: for the extortioner shall ende: the destroyer shalbe consumed, and the oppressour shall cease out of the land.

٤ لِتَمْكُثْ مَعَكُمْ فُلُولُ الْهَارِبِينَ مِنَّا وَاعْصُمْهُمْ مِنْ مُدَمِّرِهِمْ لأَنَّ البَاغِيَ يَبِيدُ وَالدَّمَارَ يَكُفُّ وَالظَّالِمَ يَفْنَى مِنَ الأَرْضِ.

5 And in mercy shall the throne be prepared, and hee shall sit vpon it in stedfastnesse, in the tabernacle of Dauid, iudging, and seeking iudgement, and hasting iustice.

٥ وَلا يَلْبَثُ أَنْ يَثْبُتَ بالرَّحْمَةِ عَرْشٌ فِي بَيْتِ دَاوُدَ يَجْلِسُ عَلَيْهِ بِأَمَانَةٍ مَلِكٌ يَقْضِي بِالْعَدْلِ وَالإِنْصَافِ.

6 We haue heard of the pride of Moab, (he is very proud) euen his pride, and his arrogancie, and his indignation, but his lies shall not be so.

٦ قَدْ سَمِعْنَا بِكِبْرِيَاءِ مُوآبَ، وَبِعَجْرَفَتِهَا وَغَطْرَسَتِهَا الطَّاغِيَتَيْنِ، وَبِغُرُورِهَا وَصَلَفِهَا، وَلَكِنَّ كُلَّ افْتِخَارِهَا بَاطِلٌ.

7 Therefore shall Moab howle vnto Moab: euery one shall howle: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourne, yet they shalbe striken.

٧ لِذَلِكَ يُوَلْوِلُ الْمُوآبِيُّونَ عَلَى مُوآبَ، وَيَئِنُّونَ عَلَى قِيرَ حَارِسَ الْمُدَمَّرَةِ.

8 For ye vineyards of Heshbon are cut downe, and the vine of Sibmah: the lordes of the heathen haue broken the principal vines thereof: they are come vnto Iaazer: they wandred in the wildernesse: her goodly branches stretched out them selues, and went ouer the sea.

٨ ذَبُلَتْ حُقُولُ حَشْبُونَ وَكُرُومُ سِبْمَةَ الَّتِي أَتْلَفَ أُمَرَاءُ الأُمَمِ أَفْضَلَهَا، الَّتِي وَصَلَتْ يَوْماً إِلَى يَعْزِيرَ، وَامْتَدَّتْ إِلَى الْقَفْرِ وَبَلَغَتْ فُرُوعُهَا إِلَى الصَّحْرَاءِ.

9 Therefore will I weepe with the weeping of Iaazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon: and Elealeh, I will make thee drunke with my teares, because vpon thy sommer fruits, and vpon thy haruest a showting is fallen.

٩ لِذَلِكَ أَبْكِي كَبُكَاءِ يَعْزِيرَ عَلَى كُرُومِ سِبْمَةَ وَأُرْوِيكُمَا بِدُمُوعِي يَا حَشْبُونُ وَيَا أَلْعَالَةُ. لأَنَّ جَلَبَةَ الدَّمَارِ قَدْ وَقَعَتْ عَلَى حَصَادِكِ وَقِطَافِكِ.

10 And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.

١٠ وَانْتُزِعَ الْفَرَحُ وَالابْتِهَاجُ مِنْ رَوْضَتِكِ، فَلَمْ يَبْقَ أَحَدٌ يُرَنِّمُ أَوْ يَهْتِفُ فِي كُرُومِكِ، وَلا يُوْجَدُ مَنْ يَدُوسُ الْخَمْرَ فِي مِعْصَرَتِكِ، لأَنِّي قَدْ أَخْرَسْتُ الْهُتَافَ.

11 Wherefore, my bowels shall sounde like an harpe for Moab, and mine inwarde partes for Ker-haresh.

١١ لِهَذَا تَئِنُّ رُوحِي عَلَى مُوآبَ كَعُودٍ، وَأَحْشَائِي تَتَلَوَّى عَلَى قِيرَ حَارِسَ.

12 And when it shall appeare that Moab shall be wearie of his hie places, then shall hee come to his temple to praie, but he shall not preuaile.

١٢ وَعِنْدَمَا يَحْضُرُ الْمُوآبِيُّونَ إِلَى الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ الْمُشْرِفَةِ، يَأْخُذُهُمُ الإِعْيَاءُ، وَعِنْدَمَا يَذْهَبُونَ إِلَى مَقَادِسِهِمْ لِيُصَلُّوا، يَجْنُونَ الْبَاطِلَ.

13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.

١٣ هَذَا مَا تَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ بِهِ عَلَى مُوآبَ مُنْذُ زَمَنٍ.

14 And nowe the Lord hath spoken, saying, In three yeres, as the yeeres of a hireling, and the glorie of Moab shall be contemned in all the great multitude, and the remnant shalbe very small and feeble.

١٤ وَهَا هُوَ يَتَكَلَّمُ الآنَ قَائِلاً: «فِي غُضُونِ ثَلاثِ سَنَوَاتٍ، كَسَنَواتِ الأَجِيرِ، يُذَلُّ مَجْدُ مُوآبَ، وَيُحْتَقَرُ جَمِيعُ شَعْبِهَا، وَالنَّاجُونَ مِنْهُمْ يَكُونُونَ قِلَّةً ضَعِيفَةً».