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Isaiah 16:6

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We have heard about proud Moab— about its pride and arrogance and rage. But all that boasting has disappeared.

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Mockers are proud and haughty; they act with boundless arrogance.

This message came to me concerning Moab: In one night the town of Ar will be leveled, and the city of Kir will be destroyed.

Human pride will be brought down, and human arrogance will be humbled. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.

For the Lord’s hand of blessing will rest on Jerusalem. But Moab will be crushed. It will be like straw trampled down and left to rot.

God will push down Moab’s people as a swimmer pushes down water with his hands. He will end their pride and all their evil works.

You boast, “We have struck a bargain to cheat death and have made a deal to dodge the grave. The coming destruction can never touch us, for we have built a strong refuge made of lies and deception.”

I will cancel the bargain you made to cheat death, and I will overturn your deal to dodge the grave. When the terrible enemy sweeps through, you will be trampled into the ground.

I expose the false prophets as liars and make fools of fortune-tellers. I cause the wise to give bad advice, thus proving them to be fools.

“You used to boast, ‘We are heroes, mighty men of war.’

“Let him stagger and fall like a drunkard, for he has rebelled against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, ridiculed by all.

Moab will no longer be a nation, for it has boasted against the Lord.

The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.

This is what the Lord says: “The people of Moab have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They desecrated the bones of Edom’s king, burning them to ashes.

In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”




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