Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the ga'on Moav; 1 he is very proud; 1 even of his ga'avah (haughtiness), and his ga'on, and his insolence; 1 but his boasts shall not be so. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5And in chesed shall the kisse be established; 1 and sitting upon it in emes in the Ohel Dovid, 1 a Shofet seeking mishpat, 1 and hastening tzedek. 1

7Therefore shall Moav wail for Moav, 1 everyone shall wail; 1 for the raisin cakes of Kir Chareset shall ye mourn; 1 surely as they who grieve. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 15:1The massa (burden) of Moav: 1 Because in the lailah (night) Ar of Moav is destroyed, 1 and brought to silence; 1 because in the lailah Kir of Moav is destroyed, 1 and brought to silence; 1

Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said, 1 We have cut a brit with mavet, 1 and with Sheol are we in agreement; 1 when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, 1 it shall not come unto us; 1 for we have made kazav our refuge, 1 and under sheker have we hid ourselves; 1

Isaiah 44:25That annuls the otot of the baddim (liars, false prophets), 1 and maketh kosemim (diviners, soothsayers) into madmen; 1 that turneth back chachamim, 1 and maketh their da'as (knowledge, science) foolishness; 1

Jeremiah 48:26Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Hashem; Moav also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

Jeremiah 48:42And Moav shall be destroyed from being a people, 1 because he hath magnified himself against Hashem. 1

Amos 2:1Thus saith Hashem: 1 For shloshah peysha'im of Moav, 1 even for arba'ah, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; 1 because he burned the bones 1 of Melech Edom into lime; 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 16:2-6

Exhortations to Moab. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for… Read the whole commentary →

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