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Shelter at noon. APPEAL FOR SHELTER | The call to hide outcasts and protect fugitives is illustrated as an invitation into shade. The image expresses the appeal rather than asserting a recorded encounter.
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Isaiah 16:3-4

Shelter at noon

Shelter and lament · Isaiah 16

Story guide: APPEAL FOR SHELTER | The call to hide outcasts and protect fugitives is illustrated as an invitation into shade. The image expresses the appeal rather than asserting a recorded encounter.

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3Bring counsel; make a decision. Make your shadow like the night in the middle of noon; hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive.

4Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; be a shelter for them from the destroyer. For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased, those who trample have vanished from the land.

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