Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Make up your mind,” Moab says. “Render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees. New Living Translation “Help us,” they cry. “Defend us against our enemies. Protect us from their relentless attack. Do not betray us now that we have escaped. English Standard Version “Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive; Berean Standard Bible “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. King James Bible Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. New King James Version “Take counsel, execute judgment; Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day; Hide the outcasts, Do not betray him who escapes. New American Standard Bible “Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive. NASB 1995 “Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive. NASB 1977 “Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive. Legacy Standard Bible “Bring us counsel, make a decision; Cast your shadow like night at high noon; Hide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees. Amplified Bible [Say to the ruler] “Give us advice, make a decision [for Moab, king of Judah]; Cast your shadow [over us] like night in the midst of noon; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive [to his pursuer]. Christian Standard Bible Give us counsel and make a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade that is as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. Holman Christian Standard Bible Give us counsel and make a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade that is as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. American Standard Version Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Bring counsel and do deep meditation. Set as the night your shadow in the midst of noon; hide the wanderers and you shall not reveal the scattered ones Brenton Septuagint Translation take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive. Contemporary English Version Moab's messengers say to the people of Judah, "Be kind and help us! Shade us from the heat of the noonday sun. Hide our refugees! Don't turn them away. Douay-Rheims Bible Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about. English Revised Version Give counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday: hide the outcasts; bewray not the wanderer. GOD'S WORD® Translation Give us advice. Make a decision. At high noon make your shadow as dark as night. Hide the fugitives. Don't betray the refugees. Good News Translation They say to the people of Judah, "Tell us what to do. Protect us like a tree that casts a cool shadow in the heat of noon, and let us rest in your shade. We are refugees; hide us where no one can find us. International Standard Version "Give us advice; reach a decision! Cast your shadow as if night had come at high noon. Shelter the fugitives, And don't betray a single refugee. JPS Tanakh 1917 Give counsel, execute justice; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; Hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. Literal Standard Version Bring in counsel, do judgment, | Make your shadow as night in the midst of noon, | Hide outcasts, do not reveal the wanderer. Majority Standard Bible “Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. New American Bible Offer counsel, take their part; at high noon make your shade like the night; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitives. NET Bible "Bring a plan, make a decision! Provide some shade in the middle of the day! Hide the fugitives! Do not betray the one who tries to escape! New Revised Standard Version “Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive; New Heart English Bible Give counsel. Execute justice. Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday. Hide the outcasts. Do not betray the fugitive. Webster's Bible Translation Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth. World English Bible Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! Young's Literal Translation Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Prophecy of Moab's Devastation…2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon: 3“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees. 4Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,… Cross References 1 Kings 18:4 for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.) Isaiah 25:4 For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall, Isaiah 32:2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land. Isaiah 58:7 Isn't it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Obadiah 1:14 Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress. Treasury of Scripture Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow as the night in the middle of the noonday; hide the outcasts; denude not him that wanders. take. Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Psalm 82:3,4 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy… Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. make Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. hide Isaiah 56:8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. Obadiah 1:12-14 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress… Matthew 25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Jump to Previous Advice Betray Cast Counsel Decision Directions Discover Execute Flight Fugitive Fugitives Full Grant Height Hide High Judgment Justice Midst Night Noon Noonday Noon-Day Outcasts Refugees Render Reveal Safe Shade Shadow Wanderer Wandereth Wandering WiseJump to Next Advice Betray Cast Counsel Decision Directions Discover Execute Flight Fugitive Fugitives Full Grant Height Hide High Judgment Justice Midst Night Noon Noonday Noon-Day Outcasts Refugees Render Reveal Safe Shade Shadow Wanderer Wandereth Wandering WiseIsaiah 16 1. Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David6. Moab is threatened for her pride 9. The prophet bewails her 12. The judgment of Moab (3) Make thy shadow as the night . . .--The whole verse is addressed, as the context shows, not by the prophet to Moab, but by Moab to the rulers of Judah. The fugitives call on those rulers to plead for them and act as umpires, to be to them "as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land" (Isaiah 32:2), black as night whilst the hot sun glares all around. Some critics, however, hold that the prophet still speaks to the Moabites and calls on them to protect the fugitives from Judah as they had done of old (Ruth 1:2; 1Samuel 22:3), and so to secure a return of like protection (Kay).Verse 3. - Take counsel, execute judgment, etc. According to most critics, these are the words of the Moabites, or of a Moabite ambassador at Jerusalem, and are a call on Judaea to give shelter to the fugitives from Moab. Some, however, as Dr. Kay, maintain that the words are the prophet's, addressed to Moab, calling on her to treat kindly fugitives from Judaea. Make thy shadow as the night (comp. Isaiah 4:6). In the hot land of Moab the sun is an enemy, and "the shadow of a great rock" a welcome refuge. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Giveהָבִ֤יאִי (hā·ḇî·’î) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go us counsel, עֵצָה֙ (‘ê·ṣāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6098: Advice, plan, prudence render עֲשׂ֣וּ (‘ă·śū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 6213: To do, make a decision. פְלִילָ֔ה (p̄ə·lî·lāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6415: Office of judge or umpire Shelter us at noonday צָהֳרָ֑יִם (ṣā·ho·rā·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6672: A light, double light, noon with shade צִלֵּ֖ךְ (ṣil·lêḵ) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 6738: A shadow as dark as night. כַלַּ֛יִל (ḵal·la·yil) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity Hide סַתְּרִי֙ (sat·tə·rî) Verb - Piel - Imperative - feminine singular Strong's 5641: To hide, conceal the refugees; נִדָּחִ֔ים (nid·dā·ḥîm) Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 5080: To impel, thrust, banish do not אַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not betray תְּגַלִּֽי׃ (tə·ḡal·lî) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person feminine singular Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal the one who flees. נֹדֵ֖ד (nō·ḏêḏ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away Links Isaiah 16:3 NIVIsaiah 16:3 NLT Isaiah 16:3 ESV Isaiah 16:3 NASB Isaiah 16:3 KJV Isaiah 16:3 BibleApps.com Isaiah 16:3 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 16:3 Chinese Bible Isaiah 16:3 French Bible Isaiah 16:3 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 16:3 Give counsel! 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