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Isaiah 16:2

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2Then, like 1afleeing birds or scattered 2nestlings,

The daughters of bMoab will be at the fords of the cArnon.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or fluttering
  2. 2Lit nest

Cross references

  1. aProv 27:8
  2. bJer 48:20, 46
  3. cNum 21:13, 14

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Like fleeing birds,

like a scattered nest,

so are the daughters of Moab

at the fords of the Arnon.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Like fluttering birds

pushed from the nest,

so are the women of Moab

at the fords of the Arnon.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Like a bird fleeing,

forced from the nest,

the daughters of Moab

will be at the fords of the Arnon.

NLTNew Living Translation

The women of Moab are left like homeless birds

at the shallow crossings of the Arnon River.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And this shall be:

like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest

shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.