Isaiah 16:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow like the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; do not betray him who wanders.

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  • Isa 25:4 : 4 For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is like a storm against the wall.
  • Isa 32:2 : 2 And a man shall be like a shelter from the wind, and a refuge from the storm; like rivers of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
  • 1 Kgs 18:4 : 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
  • Judg 9:15 : 15 And the bramble said to the trees, If you truly anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
  • Isa 56:8 : 8 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather others to him, besides those that are gathered to him.
  • Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus says the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury goes out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
  • Ezek 45:9-9 : 9 Thus says the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, says the Lord GOD. 10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth part of a homer, and the ephah a tenth part of a homer: their measure shall be according to the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
  • Dan 4:27 : 27 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
  • Obad 1:12-14 : 12 But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother in the day of his calamity; nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; indeed, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. 14 You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those among them who escaped; nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained in the day of distress.
  • Jonah 4:5-8 : 5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the LORD God prepared a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to relieve him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad for the plant. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning arose the next day, and it attacked the plant so that it withered. 8 And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
  • Zech 7:9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother:
  • Matt 25:35 : 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in.
  • Heb 13:2 : 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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    4Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

    5And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hastening righteousness.

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    2For it shall be, that as a wandering bird cast out from the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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    2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity.

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    6And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

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    15Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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    4Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us, for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

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    3They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.

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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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    3Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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    6And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.

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    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

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    3Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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    2And a man shall be like a shelter from the wind, and a refuge from the storm; like rivers of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

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    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

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    13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

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    6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

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    3Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

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    29And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.

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    20Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

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