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 24:13
Context24:13 This is what will happen throughout 3 the earth,
among the nations.
It will be like when they beat an olive tree,
and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest. 4
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 “in the midst of” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).
4 sn The judgment will severely reduce the earth’s population. See v. 6.
