Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;
Hide the outcasts,
Do not betray him who escapes.
Be a shelter to them from the face of the1 spoiler.
For the extortioner is at an end,
Devastation ceases,
The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,
bJudging and seeking justice and hastening crighteousness.”
He is very proud—
Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;
bBut his1 lies shall not be so.
Everyone shall wail.
For the foundations bof Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;
Surely they are stricken.
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Isaiah 16:3-5
These displaced persons are heading generally south, but they are mulling around in confusion—they're terrified, frightened, they really don't know what to do. So that's what they're doing at the fords of Arnon. "What should we do? Where should we go? Maybe we ought to go to Zoar? It's a little place, you see nobody will pay any attention to us, if we're there." But they're admonished by God to make an offering—thus the mention of the word "lamb"—to make an offering to the ruler of the land.
Now who is the ruler of the land? It has to be Christ, because that is where His church is. He is governing His church and He is admonishing the Moabites to make an offering. He is saying, "pray, cry out for mercy" (is what God is saying)—to the ruler of the land, to Jesus Christ. The offering is to go through Selah. That's what it says: "From Selah to the wilderness," because that's where God's outcasts are. But He tells them, "Be sure nobody sees you, hide them, hide my people, don't betray where my people are," and then he encourages them. He says "Hang on, it's almost over. Christ is coming and it's but a short time when that will take place." That's what verse 5 is about.
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