Isaiah 16:14
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying: 'Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
13This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:8but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.
Job 7:1Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Isaiah 15:5My heart crieth out for Moab; her fugitives reach unto Zoar, a heifer of three years old; for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
Isaiah 21:16For thus hath the Lord said unto me: 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
Isaiah 25:10For in this mountain will the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the dunghill.
Jeremiah 48:42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself 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 →