Isaiah 16:13

New Life Version

This is the word which the Lord spoke before about 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.

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 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 pride of Moab, how very proud he is. We have heard of how proud he is of himself and of his anger. His proud words are false. ⁷ So Moab will cry out. Everyone of Moab will cry out. You will cry for the dried-grape cakes of Kir-hareseth, as if you were in the worst trouble. ⁸ The fields of Heshbon and the vines of Sibmah have dried up. The lords of the nations have crushed under foot its best vines, which went as far as Jazer and the desert. They spread themselves out and passed over the sea. ⁹ So I will cry with much sorrow for Jazer and for the vines of Sibmah. I will make you wet with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, because there is nothing to gather from your summer fruits. ¹⁰ Happiness and joy are taken away from the field that gives much fruit. No songs are sung in the grape-fields. No one crushes grapes to make wine, for I have stopped the cry of joy. ¹¹ So my heart cries with sorrow for Moab like a harp. Inside myself I cry for Kir-hareseth. ¹² When Moab goes to his high place, he will only become tired. When he goes to his holy place to pray, it will do him no good. ¹³ This is the word which the Lord spoke before about Moab. ¹⁴ But now the Lord says, "In three years, as a servant would count them, the shining-greatness of Moab and all his many people will be hated. And those left alive will be very few and weak."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

since: Isaiah 44:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:16 - near

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children. She had a woman servant from Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you. I gave the woman who served me into your arms. But when she saw that she was going to have a child, she began to hate me. May the Lord judge who is guilty or not between you and me."

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found Hagar by a well of water in the desert on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:9
Then the angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your boss. Put yourself under her power."

Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord said to her, "I will give you so many people in your family through the years that they will be too many to number."

Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against all people. And the hand of all people will be against him. He will live to the east of all his brothers."

Genesis 22:14
Abraham gave that place the name "The Lord will give us what we need." And it is said to this day, "On the mountain of the Lord it will be given."

Genesis 28:17
He was afraid and said, "This place is so different! 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 fear of Isaac, had not been with me, for sure you would have sent me away with nothing. God has seen my suffering and the work of my hands. So He spoke sharp words to you last night."

Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord. He gave it the name, The Lord is Peace. It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites to this day.

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).