Isaiah 16:3
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Continuation of the Moab oracle: refugees flee to the fords of the Arnon. Isaiah urges Moab to seek shelter with Judah and pay tribute. He laments Moab's pride but promises only three years until the remnant will be very few …
Other Translations
Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.
Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.
Cross References
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put …
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and …
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his …
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from …
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers …
The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that …
O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out …