Isaiah 16:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 And they destroyed the cities, and in every good piece of land each man threw a stone and filled it, and they stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir Haraseth did they leave its stones intact; however, the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
  • Jer 48:20 : 20 Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.
  • 1 Chr 16:3 : 3 And he gave to every person in Israel, both man and woman, a loaf of bread, a good piece of meat, and a flagon of wine.
  • Isa 8:19 : 19 And when they say to you, Seek those who have familiar spirits, and wizards that whisper and mutter: should not a people seek their God? for the living to the dead?
  • Isa 15:1-5 : 1 The 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. 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. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly. 4 And 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. 5 My 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.
  • Isa 16:11 : 11 Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.

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  • Jer 48:31
    86%

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

  • Isa 16:8-14
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    83%

    8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the nations have broken down the principal plants of it, they have come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they have gone over the sea.

    9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah: I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh: for the shouting for your summer fruits and for your harvest is fallen.

    10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

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

    12And 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.

    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 15:7-8
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    82%

    7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, they shall carry away to the brook of the willows.

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

  • Isa 15:1-5
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    81%

    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 48:36-39
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    81%

    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.

    37For every head shall be bald and every beard clipped; upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

    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.

  • Jer 48:20-21
    2 verses
    81%

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

    21Judgment has come upon the plain country: upon Holon, Jahazah, and Mephaath,

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    79%

    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.

    3A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

    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.

  • Jer 48:15-17
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    79%

    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.

    17All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name say, 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!'

  • Amos 5:16-17
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    76%

    16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing.

    17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.

  • Isa 16:6
    76%

    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.

  • Amos 2:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

    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:

  • Jer 48:41-42
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 48:33-34
    2 verses
    75%

    33Joy and gladness are taken from the plentiful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses; none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh and to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old; for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

  • Jer 48:46
    74%

    46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.

  • Jer 48:24-26
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Isa 16:2
    73%

    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.

  • 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,

  • Num 21:29
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    29Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

  • 2 Kgs 3:25
    72%

    25And they destroyed the cities, and in every good piece of land each man threw a stone and filled it, and they stopped all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees. Only in Kir Haraseth did they leave its stones intact; however, the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

  • Jer 48:9
    72%

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

  • Isa 25:10
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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.

  • Zeph 1:11
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    11Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all those who handle silver are cut off.