Isaiah 16:14
But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.
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13This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:8But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.
Job 7:1Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
Isaiah 15:5My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.
Isaiah 21:16For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:
Isaiah 25:10For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.
Jeremiah 48:42And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the 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 →