Isaiah 16:2 “Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of…”

Isaiah 16:2

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King 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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes of Arnon.

Darby Translation

And 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.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

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Cross references

“as”

Proverbs 27:8 Isaiah 13:14

Proverbs 27:8 · BSB

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

Isaiah 13:14 · BSB

Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

“the fords”

Judges 11:18 Numbers 21:13–15 Deuteronomy 2:36 Deuteronomy 3:8 Deuteronomy 3:12 Joshua 13:16

Judges 11:18 · BSB

Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab,…

Numbers 21:13–15 · BSB

From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 2:36 · BSB

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Deuteronomy 3:8 · BSB

At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—

Deuteronomy 3:12 · BSB

So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.

Joshua 13:16 · BSB

The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

Also

Jeremiah 48:20

Jeremiah 48:20 · BSB

Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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.

Read Isaiah 16