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Isaiah 16:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And now the Lord says, ‘In three years, as a hired worker counts years,  Moab’s splendour will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.’

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Moab will be destroyed as a people because he has exalted himself against the  Lord.


The Lord of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honoured ones of the earth.


For the Lord said this to me: ‘Within one year,  as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar  will be gone.


‘ “This is what the Lord says: The wise person should not boast in his wisdom; the strong should not boast in his strength; the wealthy should not boast in his wealth.


For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain. But Moab  will be trampled in his place as straw is trampled in a dung pile.


On that day the splendour of Jacob will fade, and his healthy body  will become emaciated.


My heart cries out over Moab, whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah; they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping; they raise a cry of destruction on the road to Horonaim.


For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.


Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honoured him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.


Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.


Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: ‘Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.’


Isn’t each person consigned to forced labour  on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired worker?


look away from him and let him rest so that he can enjoy his day like a hired worker.


But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west. Together they will plunder the people of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.


This is the message that the Lord previously announced about Moab.


He will spread out his arms in the middle of it, as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, along with the trickery of his hands.





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