Isaiah 16:13

Legacy Standard Bible

This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier 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.

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.

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

⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury;His idle boasts are false. ⁷Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir‑haresethAs those who are utterly stricken. ⁸For the fields of Heshbon have languished, the vines of Sibmah as well;The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clustersWhich reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea. ⁹Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away. ¹⁰Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful orchard;In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation,No treader treads out wine in the presses,For I have made the shouting to cease. ¹¹Therefore my inner being moans like a harp for MoabAnd my inward feelings for Kir‑hareseth. ¹²So it will be when Moab appears,When he wearies himself upon his high placeAnd comes to his sanctuary to pray,That he will not prevail. ¹³This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab. ¹⁴But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty."

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 borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became contemptible in her sight. May Yahweh judge between you and me."

Genesis 16:7
Now the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:9
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands."

Genesis 16:10
Moreover, the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed so that they will be too many to be counted."

Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild donkey of a man,His hand will be against everyone,And everyone's hand will be against him;And he will dwell in the face of all his brothers."

Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide, as it is said this day, "In the mount of Yahweh it will be provided."

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

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night."

Judges 6:24
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,

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).