Isaiah 16:6-8

Contemporary English Version

Moab's Pride Is Destroyed

⁶We have heard of Moab's pride.
Its people strut and boast,
    but without reason.
⁷Tell everyone in Moab
    to mourn for their nation.
Tell them to cry and weep
for those fancy raisins^[a]
    of Kir-Hareseth.

⁸Vineyards near Heshbon
and Sibmah
    have turned brown.
The rulers of nations
    used to get drunk
on wine from those vineyards^[b]
    that spread to Jazer,
then across the desert
    and beyond the sea.

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Footnotes

16.7 fancy raisins: The Hebrew text has “raisin-cakes,” which could mean either the rich produce or the prosperous farmers.
16.8 The rulers … vineyards: Or “The rulers of nations have destroyed those vineyards.”