Isaiah 16:14

New American Bible - revised edition

But now the Lord speaks: In three years, like the years of a hired laborer, the glory of Moab shall be empty despite all its great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and weak.

Cross References

Genesis 31:1

Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father, and he has produced all this wealth from our father’s property.”

Job 14:6

Look away from him and let him be, while, like a hireling, he completes his day.

Job 7:1

Is not life on earth a drudgery, its days like those of a hireling?

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall swoop down on the foothills of the Philistines to the west, together they shall plunder the people of the east; Edom and Moab shall be their possessions, and the Ammonites their subjects.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab, his fugitives reach Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah: The ascent of Luhith they ascend weeping; On the way to Horonaim they utter rending cries;

Isaiah 16:13

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

Isaiah 17:4

On that day The glory of Jacob shall fade, and his full body shall grow thin.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord has said to me: In another year, like the years of a hired laborer, all the glory of Kedar shall come to an end.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to disgrace the height of all beauty, to degrade all the honored of the earth.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trodden down as straw is trodden down in the mire.

Isaiah 25:11

He will spread out his hands in its midst, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim; His pride will be brought low despite his strokes.

Isaiah 7:16

for before the child learns to reject evil and choose good, the land of those two kings whom you dread shall be deserted.

Jeremiah 48:42

Moab shall be wiped out, a people no more, because it set itself over against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:23

But rather, let those who boast, boast of this, that in their prudence they know me, Know that I, the Lord, act with fidelity, justice, and integrity on earth. How I take delight in these—oracle of the Lord. False Circumcision.

Deuteronomy 15:8

Instead, you shall freely open your hand and generously lend what suffices to meet that need.