ישעה 16
| שלחו כר משל ארץ מסלע מדברה אל הר בת ציון | 1 |
[The rulers of Moab will say to each other, ] “We must send some [lambs] from Sela [city] as a gift to the ruler of Judah [to persuade him to not allow his army to attack us any more]. We should send them through the desert to the king.
| והיה כעוף נודד קן משלח--תהיינה בנות מואב מעברת לארנון | 2 |
The women of Moab will be left alone at the (fords of/places where people can walk across) the Arnon [River]; they will be like [SIM] birds that have been pushed out of their nests.
| הביאו (הביאי) עצה עשו פלילה שיתי כליל צלך בתוך צהרים סתרי נדחים--נדד אל תגלי | 3 |
They will cry out, ‘Help us! Tell us what we should do! Protect us completely [MET], we who are running away [from our enemies], and do not (betray us/tell our enemies where we are).
| יגורו בך נדחי מואב הוי סתר למו מפני שודד כי אפס המץ כלה שד תמו רמס מן הארץ | 4 |
Allow [those of us] who are fleeing from Moab to stay with you; hide/protect us from [our enemies who want to] destroy us!’ [Some day] there will be no one to oppress us, and our enemies will stop destroying [our land].
| והוכן בחסד כסא וישב עליו באמת באהל דוד שפט ודרש משפט ומהר צדק | 5 |
Then [Yahweh] will appoint someone to be king who will be [a descendant of King] David. As he rules [MTY], he will be merciful and truthful. He will always do what is fair/just and quickly do what is righteous.”
| שמענו גאון מואב גא מאד גאותו וגאונו ועברתו לא כן בדיו | 6 |
We [people of Judah] have heard about [the people of] Moab; we have heard that they are very proud and conceited [DOU]; they are insolent, but what they proudly say about themselves is not true.
| לכן ייליל מואב למואב--כלה ייליל לאשישי קיר חרשת תהגו אך נכאים | 7 |
[Some day all the people in] Moab will weep. They will all mourn, because [there will be no more] raisin cakes in Kir-Hareseth [city].
| כי שדמות חשבון אמלל גפן שבמה בעלי גוים הלמו שרוקיה--עד יעזר נגעו תעו מדבר שלחותיה נטשו עברו ים | 8 |
The [crops in] the fields at Heshbon [city] will wither, and the vineyards at Sibmah [town] will wither also. The armies of [other] nations will destroy Moab, which is [like] [MET] a beautiful grapevine whose branches spread [north] to Jazer [town] and [east] to the desert. Its branches spread very far [west], to the west side of the [Dead] Sea.
| על כן אבכה בבכי יעזר גפן שבמה אריוך דמעתי חשבון ואלעלה כי על קיצך ועל קצירך הידד נפל | 9 |
So I will weep for Jazer and for the grapevines of Sibmah. I will shed tears for all of you. I will cry because people will no longer shout joyfully, like they usually do when they gather the fruit that ripens in the (summer/hot season) and the other crops that they harvest.
| ונאסף שמחה וגיל מן הכרמל ובכרמים לא ירנן לא ירעע יין ביקבים לא ידרך הדרך--הידד השבתי | 10 |
People will no longer be glad at harvest time. No one will sing in the vineyards, no one will shout joyfully. No one will tread on grapes [to get grape juice for wine]; there will be nothing to shout about [joyfully].
| על כן מעי למואב ככנור יהמו וקרבי לקיר חרש | 11 |
I cry inwardly for Moab; my groaning is like [SIM] [a sad song played on] a harp. I am sad about Kir-Hareseth.
| והיה כי נראה כי נלאה מואב על הבמה ובא אל מקדשו להתפלל ולא יוכל | 12 |
[The people of] Moab will go and pray at their sacred shrines, but that will not help them. They will cry out to their gods in their temples, [but] none of them will be able to rescue the people.
| זה הדבר אשר דבר יהוה אל מואב--מאז | 13 |
Yahweh has already spoken those things about Moab.
| ועתה דבר יהוה לאמר בשלש שנים כשני שכיר ונקלה כבוד מואב בכל ההמון הרב ושאר מעט מזער לוא כביר | 14 |
But now he says that exactly three years from now, he will destroy all the things that [the people of] Moab have been proud of. Even though they have a huge number of people in Moab now, only a few people will remain alive, and they will be weak/helpless.
