Isaiah 16:13

Complete Jewish Bible

This is the word Adonai spoke against Mo'av 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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the 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 heard about Mo'av's pride, how very proud they are; about their haughty arrogance, their insolence and bravado. ⁷ Therefore Mo'av will wail for Mo'av — they will all wail! You will sigh, stricken by grief, for the raisin-cakes of Kir-Hareset. ⁸ For the grainfields of Heshbon are withering, also the vineyards of Sibmah, whose red grapes overpowered rulers of nations — once they reached as far as Ya‘zer and trailed out into the desert; their spreading branches even crossed the sea. ⁹ Therefore I will weep for Sibmah's vine as I weep for Ya‘zer; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon and El‘aleh; because the shouts of battle are falling on your summer fruits and harvest; ¹⁰ gladness and joy are removed from the fruitful fields. No revelry in the vineyards, no happy shouting, no one treading grapes in the wine presses — I have silenced the vintage-cheers. ¹¹ This is why my heart throbs like a lyre for Mo'av, and everything in me for Kir-Heres. ¹² Even when Mo'av is seen growing weary of worshipping on the high places and entering their sanctuaries to pray, they will have accomplished nothing. ¹³ This is the word Adonai spoke against Mo'av in the past. ¹⁴ But now Adonai has said, "Within three years [and not a day more], as if a hired worker were keeping track of the time, the glory of Mo'av will be brought into contempt, despite its large population; and the surviving remnant will be few and feeble."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

since: Isaiah 44:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:16 - near

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Avram's wife had not borne him a child. But she had an Egyptian slave-girl named Hagar;

Genesis 16:5
Sarai said to Avram, "This outrage being done to me is your fault! True, I gave my slave-girl to you to sleep with; but when she saw that she was pregnant, she began holding me in contempt. May Adonai decide who is right — I or you!"

Genesis 16:7
The angel of Adonai found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur,

Genesis 16:9
The angel of Adonai said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit to her authority."

Genesis 16:10
The angel of Adonai said to her, "I will greatly increase your descendants; there will be so many that it will be impossible to count them."

Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man, with his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, living his life at odds with all his kinsmen."

Genesis 22:14
Avraham called the place Adonai Yir'eh [ Adonai will see (to it), Adonai provides] — as it is said to this day, "On the mountain Adonai is seen."

Genesis 28:17
Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Avraham, the one whom Yitz'chak fears, had not been on my side, by now you would certainly have already sent me away with nothing! God has seen how distressed I've been and how hard I've worked, and last night he passed judgment in my favor."

Judges 6:24
Then Gid‘on built an altar there to Adonai and called it " Adonai- Shalom"; to this day it remains in ‘Ofrah of the Avi‘ezri.

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).