Isaiah 16:13

English Standard Version

This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said these things about Moab many times.

New Living Translation
The Lord has already said these things about Moab in the past.

Update Bible Version
This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

New Century Version
Earlier the Lord said these things about Moab.

New English Translation
This is the message the Lord previously announced about Moab.

Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

World English Bible
This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.

Amplified Bible
This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab's pride and resistance to God were first known].

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the word which the Lord spak to Moab fro that tyme.

English Revised Version
This is the word that the LORD spake concerning Moab in time past.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has already said all of this about Moab.

American Standard Version
This is the word that Jehovah spake concerning Moab in time past.

Bible in Basic English
This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is the word Adonai spoke against Mo'av in the past.

Darby Translation
This is the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past.

King James Version (1611)
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

New Life Bible
This is the word which the Lord spoke before about Moab.

New Revised Standard
This was the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken against Moab since that time.

George Lamsa Translation
This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the word which Yahweh spake concerning Moab in, time past;

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the word, that the Lord spoke to Moab from that time:

Revised Standard Version
This is the word which the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So then this is the saying that the Lorde hath spoken concernyng Moab since that tyme.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke.

Good News Translation
That is the message the Lord gave earlier about Moab.

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the message that the Lord previously announced about Moab.

Hebrew Names Version
This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Mo'av in time past.

King James Version
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

Lexham English Bible
This was the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab in the past.

Literal Translation
This is the Word that Jehovah had spoken to Moab from that time.

Young's Literal Translation
This [is] the word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moab from that time,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the deuyce, which the LORDE toke in honde at that tyme agaynst Moab.

THE MESSAGE
This is God 's earlier Message on Moab. God 's updated Message is, "In three years, no longer than the term of an enlisted soldier, Moab's impressive presence will be gone, that splendid hot-air balloon will be punctured, and instead of a vigorous population, just a few shuffling bums cadging handouts."

New American Standard Bible
This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

New King James Version
This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Legacy Standard Bible
This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Contextual Overview

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab— how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right. ⁷ Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth. ⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea. ⁹ Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased. ¹⁰ And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting. ¹¹ Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth. ¹² And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail. ¹³ This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past. ¹⁴ But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

since: Isaiah 44:8

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 48:16 - near

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!"

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."

Genesis 16:10
The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."

Genesis 16:12
He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."

Genesis 22:14
So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."

Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."

Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab,.... That is, this prophecy now delivered out is what comes from the Lord; it is the word of the Lord, and not of man, and so shall certainly come to pass; when this word was spoken follows:

since that time; from eternity, as some, and so refer it to the decree of God within himself; or from the time that Moab was in being, or a nation, as others; or from the time that Balak hired Balaam to curse Israel, so Jarchi; or rather from the time that the Lord made known his mind and will, concerning this matter, to the prophet Isaiah: for it should be rendered, "this is that word which the Lord spake concerning Moab then" i; that is, at the time or year in which Ahaz died, Isaiah 14:28 and is observed, to distinguish it from what the prophet spoke, or was about to speak, now or from this time, concerning him, as in the next verse Isaiah 16:14.

i So Noldius, Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 473. No. 1586.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the word - This is the substance of the “former” predictions respecting Moab. This has been the “general course” or sense of the prophecies respecting Moab, during all its history.

Since that time - Formerly; from former times. There had been a course of predictions declaring in general that Moab should be destroyed, and the prophet says here that he had expressed their general sense; or that “his” predictions accorded with them all - for they all predicted the complete overthrow of Moab. He now says Isaiah 16:14 that these general prophecies respecting Moab which had been of so long standing were now to be speedily accomplished. The prophecies respecting Moab, foretelling its future ruin, may be seen in Exodus 15:15; Numbers 21:29; Numbers 24:17; Psalms 60:8; Psalms 108:9; Amos 2:2; Zephaniah 2:9. It “may,” however, be intended here that the former portion of this prophecy had been uttered by Isaiah himself during the early part of his prophetic life. He is supposed to have prophesied some sixty or more years (“see” Introduction, Section 3); and it may be that the prophecy in the fifteenth and the previous part of the sixteenth chapter had been uttered during the early part of his life without specifying the time when it would be fulfilled; but now he says, that it would be accomplished in three years. Or it may be that some other prophet had uttered the prediction which he now repeats with additions at the close. The fact that Isaiah had done this on some occasions seems probable from the beginning of Isaiah 2:0, which appears to be a quotation from Micah 4:1-3 (see the Analysis to Isaiah 15:1-9, and the notes at Isaiah 2:2).