Isaiah 16:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷Tell everyone in Moab
to mourn for their nation.
Tell them to cry and weep
for those fancy raisins^[a]
of Kir-Hareseth.

⁸Vineyards near Heshbon
and Sibmah
    have turned brown.
The rulers of nations
    used to get drunk
on wine from those vineyards^[b]
    that spread to Jazer,
then across the desert
    and beyond the sea.

⁹Now I mourn like Jazer
for the vineyards
    of Sibmah.
I shed tears for Heshbon
    and for Elealeh.
There will be no more
    harvest celebrations

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Footnotes

16.7 fancy raisins: The Hebrew text has “raisin-cakes,” which could mean either the rich produce or the prosperous farmers.
16.8 The rulers … vineyards: Or “The rulers of nations have destroyed those vineyards.”