Isaiah 16:13

Bible in Basic English

This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the message that the Lord previously announced about Moab.

Hebrew Names Version
This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Mo'av in time past.

King James Version
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

English Standard Version
This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.

New American Standard Bible
This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

New Century Version
Earlier the Lord said these things about Moab.

Amplified Bible
This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab's pride and resistance to God were first known].

World English Bible
This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has already said all of this about Moab.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is the word Adonai spoke against Mo'av in the past.

Darby Translation
This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said these things about Moab many times.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Good News Translation
That is the message the Lord gave earlier about Moab.

Lexham English Bible
This was the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab in the past.

Literal Translation
This is the Word that Jehovah had spoken to Moab from that time.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the deuyce, which the LORDE toke in honde at that tyme agaynst Moab.

American Standard Version
This is the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time past.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.

King James Version (1611)
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So then this is the saying that the Lorde hath spoken concernyng Moab since that tyme.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke.

English Revised Version
This is the word that the LORD spake concerning Moab in time past.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the word which the Lord spak to Moab fro that tyme.

Update Bible Version
This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

New English Translation
This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

New King James Version
This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

New Living Translation
The Lord has already said these things about Moab in the past.

New Life Bible
This is the word which the Lord spoke before about Moab.

New Revised Standard
This was the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the word which Yahweh spake concerning Moab in, time past;

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time:

Revised Standard Version
This is the word which the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.

Young's Literal Translation
This [is] the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moab from that time,

THE MESSAGE
This is God 's earlier Message on Moab. God 's updated Message is, "In three years, no longer than the term of an enlisted soldier, Moab's impressive presence will be gone, that splendid hot-air balloon will be punctured, and instead of a vigorous population, just a few shuffling bums cadging handouts."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Contextual Overview

⁶ We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false. ⁷ For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth. ⁸ For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea. ⁹ For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain; ¹⁰ And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped. ¹¹ For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres. ¹² And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect. ¹³ This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past. ¹⁴ But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

since: Isaiah 44:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:16 - near

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

Genesis 16:7
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:9
And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

Genesis 16:10
And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

Genesis 16:12
And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

Genesis 22:14
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

Genesis 28:17
And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven.

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

Judges 6:24
Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab,.... That is, this prophecy now delivered out is what comes from the Lord; it is the word of the Lord, and not of man, and so shall certainly come to pass; when this word was spoken follows:

since that time; from eternity, as some, and so refer it to the decree of God within himself; or from the time that Moab was in being, or a nation, as others; or from the time that Balak hired Balaam to curse Israel, so Jarchi; or rather from the time that the Lord made known his mind and will, concerning this matter, to the prophet Isaiah: for it should be rendered, "this is that word which the Lord spake concerning Moab then" i; that is, at the time or year in which Ahaz died, Isaiah 14:28 and is observed, to distinguish it from what the prophet spoke, or was about to speak, now or from this time, concerning him, as in the next verse Isaiah 16:14.

i So Noldius, Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 473. No. 1586.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the word - This is the substance of the “former” predictions respecting Moab. This has been the “general course” or sense of the prophecies respecting Moab, during all its history.

Since that time - Formerly; from former times. There had been a course of predictions declaring in general that Moab should be destroyed, and the prophet says here that he had expressed their general sense; or that “his” predictions accorded with them all - for they all predicted the complete overthrow of Moab. He now says Isaiah 16:14 that these general prophecies respecting Moab which had been of so long standing were now to be speedily accomplished. The prophecies respecting Moab, foretelling its future ruin, may be seen in Exodus 15:15; Numbers 21:29; Numbers 24:17; Psalms 60:8; Psalms 108:9; Amos 2:2; Zephaniah 2:9. It “may,” however, be intended here that the former portion of this prophecy had been uttered by Isaiah himself during the early part of his prophetic life. He is supposed to have prophesied some sixty or more years (“see” Introduction, Section 3); and it may be that the prophecy in the fifteenth and the previous part of the sixteenth chapter had been uttered during the early part of his life without specifying the time when it would be fulfilled; but now he says, that it would be accomplished in three years. Or it may be that some other prophet had uttered the prediction which he now repeats with additions at the close. The fact that Isaiah had done this on some occasions seems probable from the beginning of Isaiah 2:0, which appears to be a quotation from Micah 4:1-3 (see the Analysis to Isaiah 15:1-9, and the notes at Isaiah 2:2).