Ésaïe 16:1-6

1 Envoyez les agneaux du souverain du pays, de Séla, dans le désert, à la montagne de la fille de Sion.

2 Comme des oiseaux volant çà et là, comme une nichée effarouchée, ainsi seront les filles de Moab aux passages de l'Arnon.

3 Prenez conseil, intercédez. Étends en plein jour ton ombre, pareille à la nuit; cache les bannis, ne décèle pas les fugitifs!

4 Que les bannis de Moab séjournent chez toi! Sois pour eux une retraite devant le dévastateur! Car l'oppression a cessé, la dévastation a pris fin; ceux qui foulaient le pays ont disparu.

5 Car un trône sera établi par la clémence; et sur ce trône siégera avec fidélité, dans la tente de David, un juge ami du droit, prompt à faire justice.

6 Nous avons entendu l'orgueil de Moab, le peuple très orgueilleux, sa fierté, son orgueil et son insolence, et son vain parler.

Ésaïe 16:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 16

This chapter is a continuation of the prophecy against Moab; in which the prophet gives good advice, but in case of a haughty neglect of it, which he foresaw, threatens with ruin, and fixes a time for it. He advises the Moabites to pay their tribute to the king of Judah, or otherwise they should be turned out of their land, as a bird out of its nest, Isa 16:1,2 to protect, and not betray the people of the Jews that should flee to them, because of the Assyrian army, Isa 16:3,4 and for this end gives a great character of the king of Judah, and assures them of the stability of his kingdom, Isa 16:5 but for their pride, wrath, and lying, they are threatened with destruction, and are represented as howling under it, Isa 16:6,7 because of the spoil of their cities, vineyards, and fields, so that they have no harvest, nor vintage, nor gathering of summer fruits, or joy on these accounts, Isa 16:8-10 for which even the prophet expresses a concern, Isa 16:11 and after having observed the application of the Moabites to their gods without success, Isa 16:12 the chapter is closed with an assurance of the certain ruin of Moab, and of the time when it should be, Isa 16:13,14.