Isaiah 16:2

At the fords of the Arnon ¹  the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest. ² 

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Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

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Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

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The women of Moab are left like homeless birds at the shallow crossings of the Arnon River.

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The towns and people of Moab are at a loss, New-hatched birds knocked from the nest, fluttering helplessly At the banks of the Arnon River, unable to cross:

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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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Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

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For it shall be as a wandering bird thrown out of the nest; So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

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At the fords of the Arnon ¹  the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest. ² 

¹ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

² tn Heb “like a bird fleeing, thrust away [from] a nest, the daughters of Moab are [at] the fords of Arnon.”