Isaiah 16:14

16:14 Now the Lord makes this announcement: “Within exactly three years ¹  Moab’s splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be just a few, insignificant survivors left.” ² 

Isaiah 28:19

28:19 Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;

indeed, ³  every morning it will sweep by,

it will come through during the day and the night.” ⁴ 

When this announcement is understood,

it will cause nothing but terror.

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¹ 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 tn Heb “and the splendor of Moab will be disgraced with all the great multitude, and a small little remnant will not be strong.”

³ tn Or “for” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV).

⁴ tn The words “it will come through” are supplied in the translation. The verb “will sweep by” does double duty in the parallel structure.