Isaiah 16:12
When Moab wears himself out on the high place 1 and enters his temple to pray, his prayers will accomplish nothing.
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11So my heart sighs like a harp for Moab, and my inward being for Kir Hareseth. 1
13This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab previously.
Cross References
Numbers 22:41In the morning, Balak took Balaam up to the high place of Baal. From there Balaam could see only a part of the Israelites in their camp.
Numbers 23:28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, which looks down on the wilderness.
1 Kings 11:7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon.
2 Kings 3:27Then he took his oldest son, who should have reigned after him, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. So there was great anger against Israel, and the Israelite army left King Mesha and returned to their own land.
2 Kings 19:16Turn your ear, Yahweh, and listen. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Proverbs 1:28Then they will call upon me, and I will not answer; 1 they will desperately call for me, but they will not find me. 1
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 →