Isaiah 16:12–14

12 When Moab appears

and tires himself out on the high placed

and comes to his sanctuary to pray,

it will do him no good.e

13 This is the message that the Lord previously announced about Moab. 14 And now the Lord says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts years,f Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.”