Isaiah 16:1
Modern Translations
New International Version
Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of Daughter Zion.

New Living Translation
Send lambs from Sela as tribute to the ruler of the land. Send them through the desert to the mountain of beautiful Zion.

English Standard Version
Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Berean Study Bible
Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.

New American Standard Bible
Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

NASB 1995
Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

NASB 1977
Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela by way of the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Amplified Bible
Send lambs to the ruler of the land [you Moabites], From Sela [that is, Petra in Edom] through the wilderness to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem).

Christian Standard Bible
Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mountain of Daughter Zion.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mountain of Daughter Zion.

Contemporary English Version
Send lambs as gifts to the ruler of the land. Send them across the desert from Sela to Mount Zion.

Good News Translation
From the city of Sela in the desert the people of Moab send a lamb as a present to the one who rules in Jerusalem.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Send lambs to the ruler of the land. Send lambs from Sela through the desert to my people at Mount Zion.

International Standard Version
"Send a lamb to the ruler of the land, from Selah, by way of the desert, to the mountain of the Daughter of Zion.

NET Bible
Send rams as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the hill of Daughter Zion.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

New King James Version
Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, From Sela to the wilderness, To the mount of the daughter of Zion.

King James 2000 Bible
Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

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

World English Bible
Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

American King James Version
Send you the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

American Standard Version
Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

A Faithful Version
Send the lambs to the ruler of the land from the rock of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Zion,

Darby Bible Translation
Send the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock to the wilderness, -- unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

English Revised Version
Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Sela which is toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Webster's Bible Translation
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Sende yee a lambe to the ruler of the worlde from the rocke of the wildernesse, vnto the mountaine of the daughter Zion.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Sende the lorde of the worlde a lambe from the rocke that lyeth towarde the desert, vnto the hyl of the daughter Sion.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Then sent the lordes of the lode a ma of warre, from the rocke that lieth toward the deserte, vnto the hill of the doughter Sion
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Send a lamb [to] the ruler of the land, "" From Selah in the wilderness, "" To the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Young's Literal Translation
Send ye a lamb to the ruler of the land, From Selah in the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Smith's Literal Translation
Send ye a lamb to the ruler to the land, from the rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
SEND forth, O Lord, the lamb, the ruler of the earth, from Petra of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Sion.

Catholic Public Domain Version
O Lord, send forth the Lamb, the Ruler of the earth, from the Rock of the desert to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
I shall send the son of the Ruler of the land from the rock of the wilderness to the mountain of the house of Zion

Lamsa Bible
THE prophecy concerning the rest of the land. I will send the son of the ruler of the land from the rock city of the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land From the crags that are toward the wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is not the mount of the daughter of Sion a desolate rock?
















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