Isaiah 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 

Ge 31:1; De 15:8; Es 5:11; Isa 7:16; Isa 15:5; Isa 17:4; Isa 21:16; Isa 23:9; Jer 9:23; Jer 48:46,47; Na 2:9,10

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.”