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Isaiah 16:14

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But now the Lord says, “Moab’s honor will be despised within three years. I will count them like workers count the years left of their contracts. In spite of their great number, the survivors will be very few and powerless.”

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Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father and has gained all his wealth from him.”

Then Haman began to relate in detail to them how very rich he was, the many sons he had, and all about how the king promoted him to a position over the officials and the king’s advisers.

Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

“Isn’t a mortal’s stay on earth difficult like a hired hand’s daily ⌞work⌟?

They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia in the west. Together they will loot the people of the east. They will conquer Edom and Moab. The people of Ammon will be subject to them.

My heart cries out for Moab. Its people flee as far as Zoar at Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the mountain road to Luhith. They cry loudly over the destruction on the way to Horonaim.

This is the message that the Lord spoke about Moab in the past.

“When that day comes, the honor of Jacob’s people will fade away, and they will become skin and bones.

This is what the Lord says to me: All of Kedar’s honor will be gone in another year. I will count it like workers count the years left on their contracts.

The Lord of Armies planned this in order to dishonor all arrogant people and to humiliate all the honored people of the world.

The Lord’s power will be on this mountain. Moab will be trampled beneath him like straw that is trampled in a pile of manure.

The Moabites will stretch out their hands in the manure like swimmers who stretch out their hands to swim. ⌞The Lord⌟ will humble those arrogant people despite the movements of their hands.

Indeed, before the boy knows how to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings who terrify you will be deserted.

Moab will be destroyed as a nation, because it spoke against the Lord.

This is what the Lord says: Don’t let wise people brag about their wisdom. Don’t let strong people brag about their strength. Don’t let rich people brag about their riches.

Be generous to these poor people, and freely lend them as much as they need. Never be hard-hearted and tight-fisted with them.




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