Isaiah 16:14
And now YHWH has spoken, saying, “In three years, as years of a hired worker, || The glory of Moab is lightly esteemed, || With all the great multitude, || And the remnant [is] little, small, not mighty!”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
13This [is] the word that YHWH has spoken to Moab from that time,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:8for you certainly open your hand to him, and certainly lend him sufficiency for his lack which he lacks.
Job 7:1“Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
Isaiah 15:5My heart [is] toward Moab, || Her fugitives cry to Zoar, a heifer of the third [year], || For—the ascent of Luhith—He goes up in it with weeping, || For in the way of Horonaim, || They wake up a cry of destruction.
Isaiah 21:16For thus said the Lord to me: “Within a year, as years of a hired worker, || All the glory of Kedar has been consumed.
Isaiah 25:10For the hand of YHWH rests on this mountain, || And Moab is trodden down under Him, || As straw is trodden down on a dunghill.
Jeremiah 48:42And Moab has been destroyed from [being] a people, || For he exerted himself against YHWH.
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 →