Isaiah 16:14

The Scriptures 2009

But now יהוה has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as the years of a hired man, the esteem of Mo’aḇ is to be despised with all its great throng, and the remnant be few, small and weak.”

Cross References

Genesis 31:1

And he heard the words of Laḇan’s sons, saying, “Ya‛aqoḇ has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth.”

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the esteem of his wealth, and his many sons, and all in which the sovereign had promoted him, and how he had exalted him above the officials and servants of the sovereign.

Job 14:6

Look away from him and let him rest, till like a hired man he enjoys his day.

Job 7:1

“Does not man have to struggle on earth? For his days are like the days of a hired man.

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people of the east, their hand stretching forth on Eḏom and Mo’aḇ, and the children of Ammon shall be subject to them.

Isaiah 15:5

My own heart is toward Mo’aḇ; her fugitives cry unto Tso‛ar, like a three-year-old heifer. For by the ascent of Luḥith they go up with weeping; for in the way of Ḥoronayim they raise a cry of destruction.

Isaiah 16:13

This is the word which יהוה has spoken concerning Mo’aḇ since that time.

Isaiah 17:4

“And in that day it shall be that the esteem of Ya‛aqoḇ wanes, and the fatness of his flesh grows lean.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus יהוה has said to me, “Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the esteem of Qĕḏar shall come to an end,

Isaiah 23:9

יהוה of hosts has counselled it, to defile the pride of all splendour, and to shame all the esteemed of the earth.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of יהוה rests on this mountain, and Mo’aḇ is trodden down under Him, as straw is trodden down in the water of a dunghill.

Isaiah 25:11

And He shall spread out His hands in their midst as he who swims spreads out his hands to swim, and He shall bring down their pride together, with the skill of His hands.

Isaiah 7:16

“For before the child knows to refuse evil and choose the good, the land that you dread is to be forsaken by both her sovereigns.

Jeremiah 48:42

“And Mo’aḇ shall be destroyed as a people, because he has made himself great against יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus said יהוה, “Let not the wise boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches,

Deuteronomy 15:8

for you shall certainly open your hand to him and certainly lend him enough for his need, whatever he needs.