Isaiah 16:3
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Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.

1 Kings 18:4
For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.

Isaiah 25:4
Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

Isaiah 32:2
And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

Isaiah 58:7
Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Obadiah 1:14
Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.

take.

Isaiah 1:17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

Psalm 82:3,4 Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and the poor. . . .

Jeremiah 21:12 O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 45:9-12 Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God. . . .

Daniel 4:27 And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built, to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?

Zechariah 7:9 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

make

Isaiah 9:6 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 25:4 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

Judges 9:15 And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.

Jonah 4:5-8 And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry? . . .

hide

Isaiah 56:8 The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.

Obadiah 1:12-14 In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them. . . .

Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

Hebrews 13:2 And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

Context
A Prophecy of Moab's Devastation
2And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon. 3Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.4My fugitives shall dwell with thee: O Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the destroyer: for the dust is at an end, the wretch is consumed: he hath failed, that trod the earth under foot.…
Lexicon
“Give
הָבִ֤יאִי (hā·ḇî·’î)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

us counsel,
עֵצָה֙ (‘ê·ṣāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6098: Advice, plan, prudence

render
עֲשׂ֣וּ (‘ă·śū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

a decision.
פְלִילָ֔ה (p̄ə·lî·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6415: Office of judge or umpire

Shelter us at noonday
צָהֳרָ֑יִם (ṣā·ho·rā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6672: A light, double light, noon

with shade
צִלֵּ֖ךְ (ṣil·lêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6738: A shadow

as dark as night.
כַלַּ֛יִל (ḵal·la·yil)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity

Hide
סַתְּרִי֙ (sat·tə·rî)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5641: To hide, conceal

the refugees;
נִדָּחִ֔ים (nid·dā·ḥîm)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5080: To impel, thrust, banish

do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

betray
תְּגַלִּֽי׃ (tə·ḡal·lî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

the one who flees.
נֹדֵ֖ד (nō·ḏêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away


Additional Translations
“Give us counsel, render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow as the night in the middle of the noonday; hide the outcasts; denude not him that wanders.

Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.

Bring in counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not the fugitive.

Give counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday: hide the outcasts; bewray not the wanderer.

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the midst of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don't betray the fugitive!

Bring ye in counsel, do judgment, Make as night thy shadow in the midst of noon, Hide outcasts, the wanderer reveal not.
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