Isaiah 16:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

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  • Isa 15:2 : 2 The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.
  • Num 22:39 : 39 And Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath-huzoth.
  • Jer 48:35 : 35 And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.
  • Num 23:14 : 14 So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
  • Num 23:28 : 28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.
  • 1 Kgs 18:29 : 29 And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.
  • 2 Kgs 3:27 : 27 Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.
  • 2 Kgs 19:12 : 12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
  • 2 Kgs 19:16-19 : 16 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God. 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands, 18 And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction. 19 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hands, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you and only you, O Lord, are God.
  • Ps 115:3-7 : 3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him. 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; 7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
  • Num 24:17 : 17 I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7 : 7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
  • Jer 48:46 : 46 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.
  • Num 22:41-23:3 : 41 And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people. 1 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep. 3 Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.
  • Isa 26:16 : 16 Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
  • Isa 47:13 : 13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
  • Jer 10:5 : 5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
  • Jer 48:7 : 7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.
  • Jer 48:13 : 13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

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    13 This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.

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    6 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

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    15 He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.

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    11 For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.

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    38 On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

    39 How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.

    40 For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.

    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

    42 And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.

    43 Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.

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    3 In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

    4 Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

    5 My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

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    2 The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

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    35 And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.

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    24 And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.

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    8 And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said.

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    8 For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.

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    2 And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

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    2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

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    9 For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.

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    13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

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    18 And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

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    4 Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.

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    21 Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.

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    3 And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

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    26 And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

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    11 And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see that I am the Lord.

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    4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.