Isaiah 16:3

Take counsel. Some think these words are addressed to Zion by the Moabites, who had been forced to leave their country; others, counsel given by the prophet to the humbled people of Moab. The latter seems to be the more likely. Having brought judgment upon Moab, the Lord now counsels its stricken inhabitants as to the course they ought to pursue. Henceforth they should deal justly and practice mercy toward their neighbors. In the day of Judah’s calamity the people of Moab took delight in the tribulation that had overtaken God’s people (see Jer. 48:27; Zeph 2:8). Now the Lord admonishes them to show kindness to Judah, and not to take advantage of exiles forced to seek refuge in Moab. As with the shadows of night, they were to hide the fleeing fugitives and not to betray (“bewray”) them to their pursuers.