These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 16
Tanakh 14 verses
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Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land From the crags that are toward the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of .
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- 2 For it shall be that, as wandering birds, As a scattered nest, So shall the daughters of be At the fords of Arnon.
- 3 Give counsel, execute justice; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; Hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
- 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; As for , be thou a covert to him from the of the spoiler.’ For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, They that trampled down are consumed out of the land;
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And a throne is established through , And there sitteth thereon in , in the tent of , One that judgeth, and seeketh justice, and is ready in .
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Micah 4:7 Daniel 7:14 Isaiah 32:1-2 Isaiah 9:6-7 Daniel 7:27 Luke 1:31-33 2 Samuel 7:16 Zechariah 9:9 2 Samuel 5:9 Isaiah 11:1-5 Isaiah 55:4 2 Peter 3:11-12 Luke 1:69-75 Psalm 89:14 Psalm 72:2-4 Amos 9:11 Psalm 85:10 Jeremiah 23:5-6 2 Chronicles 31:20 Psalm 99:4 Psalm 89:1-2 2 Samuel 23:3 Psalm 96:13 Proverbs 20:28 Acts 15:16-17 Proverbs 29:14 Psalm 98:9 1 Kings 10:9 Hebrews 1:8-9 Psalm 61:6-7 - 6 We have heard of the pride of ; He is very proud; Even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, His ill-founded boastings.
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Therefore shall wail for , Every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, Sorely stricken.
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- 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, And the vine of Sibmah, Whose choice plants did overcome The lords of nations; They reached even unto Jazer, They wandered into the wilderness; Her branches were spread abroad, They passed over the sea.
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Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer For the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh; For upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest The battle shout is fallen.
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And gladness and joy are taken away Out of the fruitful field; And in the vineyards there shall be no singing, Neither shall there be shouting; No treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease.
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Wherefore my moaneth like a harp for , And mine inward parts for Kir-heres.
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And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his to pray; but he shall not prevail
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This is the that spoke concerning in time past.
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- 14 But now hath spoken, saying: ‘Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the of shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.’