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Isaiah 16:1
ESV Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
NIV Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert, to the mount of Daughter Zion.
NASB 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.
CSB Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mountain of Daughter Zion.
NLT Send lambs from Sela as tribute to the ruler of the land. Send them through the desert to the mountain of beautiful Zion.
KJV Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

What does Isaiah 16:1 mean?

This chapter continues Isaiah's oracle from the Lord against the nation of Moab (Isaiah 15). It also serves as a multi-part response to the previous chapter's lament for Moab. Refugees, fleeing from the destruction of their cities, will ask Judah for protection in their land. This verse begins by suggesting a lamb be sent to the ruler of the land. The actual language reads that they should send a "landlord's lamb," meaning a tribute, or payment, to an overlord.

Moab's famous King Mesha paid a regular tribute of lambs and wool to Israel (2 Kings 3:4). This payment went on until Israel's King Ahab died and another king took his place. Isaiah now writes that, as in those days, Moab should send a tribute from Sela to Jerusalem. Sela may refer to the capital of Edom, near Moab's southern border. At the end of chapter 15, the Moabite refugees had just reached the border. It's possible that they retreated to Sela to escape the Assyrians and that they were reaching out to Judah from that city.
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