Isaiah 16:13

The Darby Translation

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

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.

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 of the arrogance of Moab,—[he is] very proud,—of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings are vain. ⁷ Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab; every one of them shall howl. For the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn, verily afflicted. ⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea. ⁹ Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest. ¹⁰ And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry [of the winepress] to cease. ¹¹ Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirheres. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. ¹³ This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab. ¹⁴ And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

since: Isaiah 44:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:16 - near

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!

Genesis 16:7
And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:9
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16:10
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.

Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.

Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Genesis 31:42
Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, been with me, it is certain thou wouldest have sent me away now empty. God has looked upon my affliction and the labour of my hands, and has judged last night.

Judges 6:24
And Gideon built there an altar to Jehovah, and called it Jehovah-shalom. To this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

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).