1 The Hebrew text reads literally, “Send [a plural imperatival form is used] a ram [to] the ruler of the land.” The term כַּר (kar, “ram”) should be emended to the plural כָּרִים (karim). The singular form in the text is probably the result of haplography; note that the next word begins with a mem (ם).
2 The Hebrew text has “toward [across?] the desert.”
3 The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in .
4 Heb “like a bird fleeing, thrust away [from] a nest, the daughters of Moab are [at] the fords of Arnon.”

In other versions

Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,

from Sela, by way of the desert,

to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Like fleeing birds,

like a scattered nest,

so are the daughters of Moab

at the fords of the Arnon.

Send lambs as tribute

to the ruler of the land,

from Sela, across the desert,

to the mount of Daughter Zion.

Like fluttering birds

pushed from the nest,

so are the women of Moab

at the fords of the Arnon.

Send lambs to the ruler of the land,

from Sela in the desert

to the mountain of Daughter Zion.

Like a bird fleeing,

forced from the nest,

the daughters of Moab

will be at the fords of the Arnon.

Send lambs from Sela as tribute

to the ruler of the land.

Send them through the desert

to the mountain of beautiful Zion.

The women of Moab are left like homeless birds

at the shallow crossings of the Arnon River.

Send a ram to the ruler of the land,

from Sela across the desert to the mountain of daughter Zion.

And this shall be:

like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest

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

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land

From Sela to the wilderness,

Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

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.

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