Isaiah 16:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab —how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; his boasts are false.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud–even of his arrogance, his conceit, his wrath, his untruthful boasting.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.

Common English Bible

⁶ We have heard of Moab’s pride, his great pride, his outrageous pride and arrogance, his empty boasting.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. His pride and his arrogance and his indignation is more than his strength.

Isaiah 16:6 Cross References

Amos 2:1

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.

Jeremiah 48:42

Moab shall be destroyed as a people, because he magnified himself against the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunk because he magnified himself against the Lord; let Moab wallow in his vomit; he, too, shall become a laughingstock.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be dismayed!

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 2:11

The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 21:24

The proud, haughty person, named Scoffer, acts with arrogant pride.

Isaiah 25:11

Though they spread out their hands in the midst of it, as swimmers spread out their hands to swim, their pride will be laid low despite the struggle of their hands.

Isaiah 15:1

An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain. The Moabites shall be trodden down in their place as straw is trodden down in the manure.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, “We are heroes and mighty warriors”?