16 Send lambs [^Cas tribute payment] to the ·king [ruler] of the land
Send it from Sela [^Can Edomite city, later the Nabatean capital called Petra] through the desert
    to the mountain of ·Jerusalem [^Lthe daughter of Zion; ^CZion was the location of the Temple; 1:8].
² The women of Moab
    ·try to cross the river [^Lat the fords of] Arnon
like little birds
    ·that have fallen [or pushed away; or scattered] from their nest.