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13 This is the message that Yahweh spoke about Moab in the past. 14 But now Yahweh says, “Moab’s honor will be despised within three years. I will count them like workers count the years left of their contracts.[a] In spite of their great number, the survivors will be very few and powerless.”

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  1. Isaiah 16:14 Hebrew meaning of this sentence uncertain.

13 This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. 14 But now the Lord says: “Within three years,(A) as a servant bound by contract(B) would count them,(C) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,(D) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”(E)

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13 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

14 But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, (A)as the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

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13 This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab (A)in the past. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “In three years, (B)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 (C)very few and feeble.”

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