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Isaiah 16:12

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16:12When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places,27

and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!28

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Footnotes

  1. 27 The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in .
  2. 28 Heb “when he appears, when he grows tired, Moab on the high places, and enters his temple to pray, he will not prevail.” It is possible that “when he grows tired” is an explanatory gloss for the preceding “when he appears.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When Moab appears at her high place,

she only wears herself out;

when she goes to her shrine to pray,

it is to no avail.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When Moab appears

and tires himself out on the high place

and comes to his sanctuary to pray,

it will do him no good.

NLTNew Living Translation

The people of Moab will worship at their pagan shrines,

but it will do them no good.

They will cry to the gods in their temples,

but no one will be able to save them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And this shall happen:

when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place

and it comes to its sanctuary to pray, it will not prevail.

KJV 1900King James Version

And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,

That he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.