Isaiah 16:6

New American Bible - revised edition

We have heard of the pride of Moab, how very proud he is, Of his haughtiness, pride, and arrogance that his empty words do not match.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:24

Proud, boastful—scoffer is the name: those who act with overbearing pride.

Isaiah 15:1

Oracle on Moab: Laid waste in a night, Ar of Moab is destroyed; Laid waste in a night, Kir of Moab is destroyed.

Isaiah 2:11

The eyes of human pride shall be lowered, the arrogance of mortals shall be abased, and the Lord alone will be exalted, on that day.

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 28:15

You have declared, “We have made a covenant with death, with Sheol we have made a pact; When the raging flood passes through, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,”—

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death shall be canceled and your pact with Sheol shall not stand. When the raging flood passes through, you shall be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 44:25

I bring to nought the omens of babblers, make fools of diviners, Turn back the wise and make their knowledge foolish.

Jeremiah 48:14

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

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunk because he set himself over against the Lord; let Moab swim in his vomit and become a laughingstock.

Jeremiah 48:42

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

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword upon the soothsayers, and they become fools! A sword upon the warriors, and they tremble;

Amos 2:1

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king,

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger members, be subject to the presbyters. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for: “God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.”