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Isaiah 16

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14 verses in KJV · 166 outgoing cross-reference links

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Opening verses of Isaiah 16 (KJV)

16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

16:2 For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

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Traditional writer attribution: Isaiah

Approximate study chronology: c. 726 BC

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