Isaiah 16:14

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Summary

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

Three

The glory

And the remnant

Jeremiah 48:46

Bible References

Three

For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.

For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;

but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

The glory

Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,

To despise all the honored of the earth.

Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this wealth.”

Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the

number of his sons, and every instance where the king had magnified him and how he had

promoted him above the princes and servants of the king.

Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

Plunder the silver!
Plunder the gold!
For there is no limit to the treasure—
Wealth from every kind of desirable object.

And the remnant

“Woe to you, Moab!
The people of Chemosh have perished;
For your sons have been taken away captive
And your daughters into captivity.