Isaiah 16:14
But now LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and of no account.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13This is the word that LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:8but thou shall surely open thy hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need which he wants.
Job 7:1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out for Moab. Her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah. For they go up with weeping by the ascent of Luhith. For they raise up a cry of destruction in the way of Horonaim.
Isaiah 21:16For thus LORD has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
Isaiah 25:10For the hand of LORD will rest on this mountain. And Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
Jeremiah 48:42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against LORD.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 16:7-14
The Pride of Moab; The Threatening against Moab; The Doom of Moab. ( b. c. 725.) 6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto… Read the whole commentary →