Isaiah 16

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

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

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

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

3 Give counsel. Execute justice. Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday. Hide the outcasts. Do not betray the fugitive.

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

4 Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with you; be a hiding place to them from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is at an end, destruction has ceased, oppressors have finished from the land.

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

5 A 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.

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

6 We 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.

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

7 Ah, let not Moab wail; let everyone wail for Moab. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

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

8 For 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.

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

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

10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing and there will be no jubilant shouting. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.

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

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

12 It 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.

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

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

١٣ هَذَا مَا تَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ بِهِ عَلَى مُوآبَ مُنْذُ زَمَنٍ.

14 But now Jehovah 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."

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