Isaiah 16:2

Isaiah 16:2 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

2Like fluttering birds

pushed from the nest,

so are the women of Moab

at the fords of the Arnon.

2Then, like fluttering birds or scattered nestlings,

The daughters of Moab will be at the crossing places of the Arnon.

2For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings,

The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

2Like fluttering birds

pushed out of the nest,

so are the daughters of Moab

at the fords of the Arnon:

2For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

2For it shall be as a birde that flieth, and a nest forsaken: the daughters of Moab shall be at the foordes of Arnon.

2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

2The women of Moab are at the places

where people go across the Arnon River.

They are like birds that flap their wings

when they are pushed from their nest.

2Moab's women are standing at the shore of Arnon River. They want to go across. They are like birds that people have chased out of their nests.

2And it has come to pass, || As a wandering bird, cast out of a nest, || Are daughters of Moab, [at] fords of Arnon.