A proud and haughty man —Mocker is his name— acts with overbearing pride.
Isaiah 16:6 - Tree of Life Version We have heard of the pride of Moab— very proud is he—of his haughtiness, his arrogance, his insolence, and his dishonest boasting. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud–even of his arrogance, his conceit, his wrath, his untruthful boasting. American Standard Version (1901) We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought. Common English Bible We have heard of Moab’s pride, his great pride, his outrageous pride and arrogance, his empty boasting. Catholic Public Domain Version We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. His pride and his arrogance and his indignation is more than his strength. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We have heard of the pride of Moab: he is exceeding proud. His pride and his arrogancy and his indignation is more than his strength. |
A proud and haughty man —Mocker is his name— acts with overbearing pride.
The burden of Moab. For in the night that Ar is devastated, Moab is ruined; for in the night that Kir is devastated, Moab is ruined.
The man of haughty eyes is humbled, the lofty ones brought low, for Adonai alone will be exalted in that day.
For the hand of Adonai will rest on this mountain. Moab will be trampled under Him, as straw is trampled in a manure pile.
When he spreads his hands in it as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim, his pride will be brought down low together with the trickery of his hands.
“Because you have said, ‘We cut a covenant with death, we made a pact with Sheol, so when the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come for us, for we have made lies our refuge, and hid ourselves in falsehood’—
Your covenant with death is annulled, and your pact with Sheol will not stand. An overflowing scourge will pass through and you will be its trampling place.
causing the omens of boasters to fail, making fools of diviners, turning wise men backward and making their knowledge foolish,
“Make him drunk, for he exalted himself against Adonai. So Moab will wallow in his vomit and also become a laughingstock.
Moab will be destroyed as a people, because he boasted against Adonai.
Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of Moab even for four, I will not relent. For he burned the bones of Edom’s king to lime,
Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”