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Isaiah 16:13

This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

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].
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;
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, [that] he is very proud; even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nothing. 7 Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall you mourn, utterly stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea. 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen. 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease. 11 Why my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-heres. 12 It shall happen, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. 13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past. 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and 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
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:5
Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
Genesis 16:7
The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:9
The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
Genesis 16:10
The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."
Genesis 16:12
He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
Genesis 22:14
Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh. As it is said to this day, "In Yahweh's mountain it will be provided.
Genesis 28:17
He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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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