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Atomic Bible
Isaiah 16:4
Let my fugitives stay with you;
from Moab’s Destruction, Isaiah 16:1-14
What it says

The fugitives ask to stay hidden from the destroyer, with oppression imagined as nearing its end.

What it is doing

This verse turns refuge into an urgent political and humanitarian plea.

In context

1Send the tribute lambs 2Like fluttering birds 3“Give us counsel; 4Let my fugitives stay with you; 5in loving devotion a throne will be established 6We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, 7Therefore let Moab wail; 8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, 9So I weep with Jazer 10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; 11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, 12When Moab appears on the high place, 13This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”