Isaiah 16:6

World English Bible (2000)

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

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  • Amos 2:1 : 1 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;
  • Obad 1:3-4 : 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
  • Jer 48:29-30 : 29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.
  • Jer 48:42 : 42 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
  • Jer 50:36 : 36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
  • Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 28:15 : 15 "Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"
  • Isa 28:18 : 18 Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Jer 48:26 : 26 Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

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  • Jer 48:29-31
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    29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

    30 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.

    31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.

  • Jer 48:42-43
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    42 Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

    43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh.

  • Isa 16:11-14
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    11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

    12 It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will 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 a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble."

  • Zeph 2:8-10
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    8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

    9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

    10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

  • Isa 16:7
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    7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

  • Jer 48:25-26
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    25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.

    26 Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

  • Jer 48:13-17
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    13 Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

    14 How do you say, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?

    15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

    16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

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

  • Jer 48:1-5
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    1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.

    2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.

    3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

    4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

    5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

  • Jer 48:38-39
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    38 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.

    39 How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

  • Jer 48:20
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    20 Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

  • Isa 15:1-2
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    1 The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

    2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

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

  • Jer 48:36
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    36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

  • Amos 2:1-2
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    1 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

    2 but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

  • Prov 16:18
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    18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  • Jer 48:11
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    11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

  • Isa 15:4-5
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    4 Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

    5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9 Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 2:3
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    3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

  • Amos 6:13
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    13 you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?'

  • Jer 13:15
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    15 Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

  • Ezek 25:11
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    11 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

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

  • Isa 25:10
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    10 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

  • Ezek 25:8-9
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    8 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;

    9 therefore, 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,

  • Isa 16:4
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    4 Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

  • Obad 1:3
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    3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'

  • Hos 5:5
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    5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.