Isaiah 16:12

New American Bible - revised edition

When Moab wears himself out on the high places, and enters his sanctuary to pray, it shall avail him nothing.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:7

Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and to Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain opposite Jerusalem.

1 Kings 18:29

Noon passed and they remained in a prophetic state until the time for offering sacrifice. But there was no sound, no one answering, no one listening.

2 Kings 19:12

Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed deliver them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, or the Edenites in Telassar?

2 Kings 3:27

So he took his firstborn, who was to succeed him as king, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. The wrath against Israel was so great that they gave up the siege and returned to their own land.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me, but will not find me,

Isaiah 15:2

Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab is wailing. Every head is shaved, every beard sheared off.

Isaiah 16:13

That is the word the Lord spoke against Moab in times past.

Isaiah 26:16

Lord, oppressed by your punishment, we cried out in anguish under your discipline.

Isaiah 37:38

When he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.

Isaiah 47:13

You wore yourself out with so many consultations! Let the astrologers stand forth to save you, The stargazers who forecast at each new moon what would happen to you.

Jeremiah 10:5

Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they, they cannot speak; They must be carried about, for they cannot walk. Do not fear them, they can do no harm, neither can they do good.

Jeremiah 48:13

Chemosh shall disappoint Moab, just as the house of Israel was disappointed by Bethel, in which they trusted.

Jeremiah 48:35

I will leave no one in Moab—oracle of the Lord—to offer burnt offerings on the high place or to make sacrifices to their gods.

Jeremiah 48:46

Woe to you, Moab! You are finished, people of Chemosh! Your sons are taken into exile, your daughters into captivity.

Jeremiah 48:7

Because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be captured. Chemosh shall go into exile, his priests and princes with him.

Numbers 21:28

For fire went forth from Heshbon and a blaze from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab and swallowed up the high places of the Arnon.

Numbers 22:39

Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

Numbers 22:41

The next morning Balak took Balaam up on Bamoth-baal, and from there he could see some of the people.

Numbers 23:14

So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.

Numbers 23:28

So he took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks Jeshimon.

Numbers 24:17

I see him, though not now; I observe him, though not near: A star shall advance from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, That will crush the brows of Moab, and the skull of all the Sethites,