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Friday, July 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Douay-Rheims Bible

Isaiah 16:13

This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time:

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Moab, Moabites;   Sela;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon ammonites children of ammon;   Handicraft;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arnon;   Isaiah;  

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 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;
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, he is exceeding proud: his pride and his arrogancy, and his indignation is more than his strength. 7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes. 8 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea. 9 Therefore I will lament with the weeping of Jazer the vineyard of Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest. 10 And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away. 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall. 12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is wearied on his high places, that he shall go in to his sanctuaries to pray, and shall not prevail. 13 This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time: 14 And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

since: Isaiah 44:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:16 - near

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar,
Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.
Genesis 16:7
And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
Genesis 16:9
And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.
Genesis 16:10
And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 16:12
He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men’s hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.
Genesis 22:14
And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon, even to this day, it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
Genesis 28:17
And trembling, he said: How terrible is this place? this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
Judges 6:24
And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the Lord’s peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra, which is of the family of 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).


 
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