Isaiah 16:14

Again Yahweh speaks, “Within three years, the glory of Moab will disappear; in spite of his many people, the remnant will be very few and insignificant.”

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In The King James Version

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

In Context

13This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab previously.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:8but you must surely open your hand to him and surely lend him sufficient for his need.

Job 7:1Does not man have hard labor on earth? 1 Are not his days like the days of a hired man? 1

Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar and to Eglath Shelishiyah. 1 They go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; 1 on the road to Horonaim they loudly wail over their destruction. 1

Isaiah 21:16For this is what the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a laborer hired for a year would see it, all the glory of Kedar will end.

Isaiah 25:10For on this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest; 1 and Moab will be trampled down in his place, even as straw is trampled down in a pit filled with manure. 1

Jeremiah 48:42So Moab will be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he made himself to be great against Yahweh. 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 →

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