Discovery BoxIsaiah 16:14 
Context16:14 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 17:3
Context17:3 Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim,
and Damascus will lose its kingdom. 3
The survivors in Syria
will end up like the splendor of the Israelites,”
says the Lord who commands armies.
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 Heb “and kingship from Damascus”; cf. NASB “And sovereignty from Damascus.”
