Isaiah 16:6

(Jeremiah 48:29-30.) The prayer is rejected. The writer, speaking in the name of his countrymen, exposes the hollowness of Moab's professions of allegiance and submission, as altogether opposed to the arrogant spirit for which the nation was notorious. On the pride of Moab cf. (besides Jeremiah 48:29) ch. Isaiah 25:11; Zephaniah 2:8. The national spirit has found an enduring monument in the inscription of the Moabite Stone.

but his liesshall notbe so Better: the unreality of his pratings (a contemptuous word, cf. ch. Isaiah 44:25). R.V. "his boastings are nought."