Isaiah 16:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”

Cross References

Genesis 31:1

Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth.”

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.

Job 14:6

look away from him, and desist, that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.

Job 7:1

“Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall swoop down upon the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;

Isaiah 16:13

This is the word which the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.

Isaiah 17:4

And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, as straw is trodden down in a dung-pit.

Isaiah 25:11

And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim; but the Lord will lay low his pride together with the skill of his hands.

Isaiah 7:16

For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.

Jeremiah 48:42

Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;

Deuteronomy 15:8

but you shall open your hand to him, and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.