2Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.


In Context

1 Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of the Daughter of Zion.

2 Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

3 "Give us counsel, render a decision. Make your shadow like night- at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.

4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer." The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.

Isaiah 16:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:2For 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:2And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:2And it shall be that as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:2For 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:2And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, at fords of Arnon.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:2For 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.