< Esaias 16 >

1 «Send landsherren dei lamb han skal hava frå Sela gjenom øydemarki til fjellet åt dotteri Sion!»
[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.
2 Liksom flaksande fuglar, som skræmde fuglungar, skal Moabs døtter koma til vadi yver Arnon.
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.
3 «Gjev råd, finn utveg åt oss! Lat skuggen din vera som natti, no midt i dagsljoset! Gjev livd åt dei burtdrivne! svik ikkje den som flyr!
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).
4 Lat mine burtdrivne finna tilhald hjå deg, ver ein verneskjold åt Moab imot mordaren! For det er ute med valdsmannen, øydeleggjingi fær ende, og trælkaren hev fare or landet.
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].
5 So vert kongsstolen grunnfest ved mildskap, og det skal trygt sitja der ein fyrste i Davids tjeld, ein domar som fer etter det som rett er, og som fremjar rettferd.»
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.”
6 Me hev høyrt um Moabs ovmod, det store og stolte, um hans ofse, byrgskap og ovlæte, um hans tome skryt.
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.
7 Difor skal Moab jamrar yver Moab, alt landet skal jamra seg. Yver druvekakorne i Kir-Hareset skal dei sukka i djup ørvæna.
[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].
8 For Hesbons vinmarker hev visna, Sibma-vintrei. Soldruvorne slo folkehovdingarne til jordi. Dei nådde radt til Jazer, og vildra seg ut i øydemarki; greinerne breidde seg ut, for yver havet.
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.
9 Difor græt eg med Jaser yver Sibma-vintrei; med tårorne mine vil eg vatna deg, Hesbon, og deg, El’ale; for yver din frukthaust og vinhaust hev vinpersarropet slege ned.
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.
10 Gleda og fagnad er kvorve or aldehagarne, og frå vinhagarne høyrest ikkje gledesongar eller fagnadrop; ingen trakkar druvor i persorne. Eg hev late vinpersarropet deira tagna.
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].
11 Difor bivrar mitt brjost for Moab som citherstrengjer, og mitt hjarta for Kir-Heres.
I cry inwardly for Moab; my groaning is like [SIM] [a sad song played on] a harp. I am sad about Kir-Hareseth.
12 Og når Moab viser seg på offerhaugen og stræver der, og han kjem til heilagdomen sin og bed, so vinn han inkje med det.
[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.
13 Dette er det ordet som Herren fordom hev tala til Moab.
Yahweh has already spoken those things about Moab.
14 Men no talar Herren so: Innan tri år - so som ein leigekar reknar åri - skal Moabs herlegdom og all hans store folkesverm vera lite vyrd, og leivningen som er att, skal vera liten og vesall, ikkje mykje verd.
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.

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