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14 Now the Lord makes this announcement: “Within exactly three years[a] Moab’s splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be only a few insignificant survivors left.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:14 tn Heb “in three years, like the years of a hired worker.” The three years must be reckoned exactly, just as a hired worker would carefully keep track of the time he had agreed to work for an employer in exchange for a predetermined wage.
  2. Isaiah 16:14 tn Heb “and the splendor of Moab will be disgraced with all the great multitude, and a small little remnant will not be strong.”