Isaiah 16:13-14

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¹³This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab’s pride and resistance to God were first known]. ¹⁴But now the Lord speaks, saying, “Within ^[a]three years, as the years of a hired man [who will not serve longer than the agreed time], the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all ^[b]the great population, and the remnant [that survives] will be very small and of no account.”

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Footnotes

Isaiah 16:14 This prophecy was fulfilled after the death of King Ahaz of Judah (Is 14:28), about the third year of King Hezekiah’s reign. Moab was not left completely without population at this time; there was still a “remnant.” The final desolation of Moab was reserved for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 582 b.c., some five years after the taking of Jerusalem. The ruins of Elealeh, Heshbon, Medeba, Dimon, etc., still exist to confirm through modern research the accuracy of the fulfillment of this prophecy.
Isaiah 16:14 Lit all the great number.