Isaiah 16:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

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  • Isa 15:2 : 2 He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
  • Num 22:39 : 39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjathhuzoth.
  • Jer 48:35 : 35 Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him who offers in the high places, and him who burns incense to his gods.
  • Num 23:14 : 14 And he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  • Num 23:28 : 28 And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks toward Jeshimon.
  • 1 Kgs 18:29 : 29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any who regarded.
  • 2 Kgs 3:27 : 27 Then he took his eldest son, who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.
  • 2 Kgs 19:12 : 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
  • 2 Kgs 19:16-19 : 16 LORD, incline your ear, and hear: open, LORD, your eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beg you, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD God, you alone.
  • Ps 115:3-7 : 3 But our God is in the heavens; He has done whatever He has pleased. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; 6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; 7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
  • Num 24:17 : 17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7 : 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
  • Jer 48:46 : 46 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.
  • Num 22:41-23:3 : 41 And it happened on the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that from there he might see the furthest part of the people. 1 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me, I will tell you. And he went to a high place.
  • Isa 26:16 : 16 LORD, in trouble they have visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
  • Isa 37:38 : 38 And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
  • Isa 47:13 : 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
  • Jer 10:5 : 5 They stand upright like a palm tree, but do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot go. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
  • Jer 48:7 : 7 Because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be taken; and Chemosh shall go into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
  • Jer 48:13 : 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

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  • Isa 16:13-14
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    13This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

    14But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

  • Isa 16:6-7
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    6We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

    7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

  • Jer 48:15-16
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    15Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens quickly.

  • Isa 16:11
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    11Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

  • Jer 48:38-44
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    38There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab and in its streets, for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure, says the LORD.

    39They shall howl, saying, 'How it is broken down! How has Moab turned his back with shame!' So Moab shall be a derision and a dismaying to all those around him.

    40For thus says the LORD: Behold, he shall fly like an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab.

    41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab in that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

    42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.

    43Fear, the pit, and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.

    44He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.

  • Isa 15:1-5
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    1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence.

    2He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

    3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly.

    4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

    5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, like a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Jer 48:20
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    20Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.

  • Jer 48:1-2
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    1Against Moab, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo, for it is ruined; Kiriathaim is confounded and captured; Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

    2There shall be no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against it: 'Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.' You too shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

  • Jer 48:35-36
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    35Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him who offers in the high places, and him who burns incense to his gods.

    36Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches he has acquired are perished.

  • Jer 48:29-31
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    29We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

    30I know his wrath, says the LORD, but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

    31Therefore I will howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; my heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

  • Isa 25:10-11
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    10For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under Him, as straw is trodden down for the refuse heap.

    11And He will stretch forth His hands in their midst, as he who swims spreads his hands to swim; and He will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

  • Jer 48:24-26
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    24And upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD.

    26Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and also he shall be in derision.

  • Jer 48:8-9
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    8And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

    9Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

  • Isa 15:8
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    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beerelim.

  • Jer 48:46-47
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    46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.

    47Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

  • Amos 2:2
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    2But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

  • Isa 16:2
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    2For it shall be, that as a wandering bird cast out from the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

  • Jer 48:11
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    11Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is unchanged.

  • Ezek 25:9
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    9Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,

  • Jer 48:13
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    13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

  • 2 Kgs 3:18
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    18And this is but a trivial thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

  • Jer 48:4-5
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    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.

    5For on the ascent of Luhith they will go up with continual weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 3:21
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    21And when all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, they gathered all who were able to put on armor, and stood at the border.

  • Num 22:3
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    3And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 3:26
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    26And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

  • Ezek 25:11
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    11And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Isa 16:4
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    4Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be a shelter to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.