George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 15:7
Willows. That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon; others render it a valley of the Arabians, (Challoner) or "of crows," to which their bodies will be exposed, chap. lvii. 6.
Willows. That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon; others render it a valley of the Arabians, (Challoner) or "of crows," to which their bodies will be exposed, chap. lvii. 6.
Verse Isaiah 15:7. "Shall perish"] אבדו _abadu_ or אבדה _abadeh_. This word seems to have been lost out of the text: it is supplied by the parallel place, Jeremiah 48:36. The _Syriac_ expresses it by...
THEREFORE, THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN - Their wealth they shall remove from a place that is utterly burned up with drought, where the waters and the grass fail, to another place where they may fin...
CHAPTER 15 The Burden of Moab _ The Destruction Announced (Isaiah 15:1)_...
THE OVERTHROW OF MOAB. A sudden catastrophe has overwhelmed Ar (Numbers 21:15 *) and Kir in one night. The daughter (read _bath_ for Bayith; _cf_. Jeremiah 48:18) of Dibon (Numbers 21:30 *) has gone u...
BROOK OF THE WILLOWS: or valley of the Arabians. Probably the _Wady-el-Ahsy_ separating Kerek from Djebal, or the brook Zered of Deuteronomy 2:13; Deuteronomy 2:14....
The flight of the Moabites....
(Jeremiah 48:36.) The fugitives have now reached the border of their own land, and prepare to cross into Edom. The boundary between the two countries was formed by the Wadi el-Ahsa ("valley of water-p...
MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB— Hitherto the prophet had set forth the lamentation of the Moabites; but seeing these future evils as it were present to his own mind, he compassionates their griefs, a...
B. IMPUDENT EASTERNERS - Chapter S 15-17 CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1. MOAB a. INVASION TEXT: Isaiah 15:1-9 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a nig...
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. THEREFORE - Because of the devastation of the land. THE ABUNDANCE T...
THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS] Evidently mentioned as the boundary of the land and generally identified with the brook Zered (Numbers 21:2; Deuteronomy 2:13). The fugitives are pictured as carrying their p...
1. BURDEN] see on Isaiah 13:1. BECAUSE.. NIGHT] RV 'For in a night.' AR OF MOAB] i.e. city of Moab. The capital (Numbers 22:36; Joshua 13:16) is doubtless meant. The places referred to in the chapter...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 15 GOD WILL PUNISH MOAB V1 God gave Isaiah this special message abo...
The enemy attacked from the north. The people from Moab ran away from them to the south. Like all *refugees in times of war, they tried to carry a few possessions with them. • The ‘Stream of the Tree...
עַל ־כֵּ֖ן יִתְרָ֣ה עָשָׂ֑ה וּ פְקֻדָּתָ֔ם עַ
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning Assyria consi...
Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the (i) brook of the willows. (i) To hide themselves and their goods there....
Everything contained in these verses is like the Prophet's roll, written within, and without, and full of nothing else but lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Alas! what an awful thing must it be, to...
7._Therefore what every one hath left. _(244) This corresponds to the ordinary expression, (_Ce qu’il aura espargne _,) _Whatever he shall have spared_. He means the riches that are laid up, and descr...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
THEREFORE THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN, AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE LAID UP,.... The great substance which the Moabites had got, and hoarded up: SHALL THEY CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS; eith...
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. Ver. 7. _Therefore the abundance they have gotten._] Here the prophet se...
_For the waters_, &c. The prophet, in these verses, sets forth the causes of lamentation among the inhabitants of the southern part of Moab. The first is the desolation of their fruitful fields, Isaia...
Therefore, on account of the destruction of their land, THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN, above and beyond their needs, AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE LAID UP, by careful saving, SHALL THEY CARRY AWAY TO THE...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
BROOK OF THE WILLOWS: Or, valley of the Arabians...
SHALL THEY, to wit, their enemies, which is plainly implied, CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS; unto some brook or river having great numbers of willows growing by it, by which they might convey...
Isaiah 15:7 abundance H3502 gained H6213 (H8804) up H6486 away H5375 (H8799) Brook H5158 Willows H6155...
‘Therefore such wealth as they have accumulated, And that which they have laid up, They will carry away, To the Brook of the Willows.' Their only hope is escape across the border. This is the sad s...
CONTENTS: The burden of Moab. Prophecy of great desolations upon the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Great and dismal changes may in the providence of God be made within a very short tim...
Isaiah 15:1. _The burden of Moab._ Joshua had spared this nation by divine command, being, as descendants of Lot, relatives of the Hebrews. Deuteronomy 2:9. But they made no returns: Eglon king of Moa...
_The harden of Moab_ THE MOABITE STONE From the inscription of Mesha (c. 900 B.C.), found at Dibon in 1869, and commonly known as the “Moabite stone,” we learn that the Moabites spoke a language dif...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:1 The third oracle concerns Moab. Jeremiah 48:1 parallels and expands this passage....
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 15:1 THE BURDEN OF MOAB. The present chapter and the next are very closely connected, and may be regarded as together constituting "the burden of Moab." It has been argued on critic...
Now in chapter 15, he turns his attention against Moab, that area that lies just east of the Jordan and of the Dead Sea. And he begins to speak of the destruction of Moab and of some of the major citi...
Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 5:29; Nahum 2:12; Nahum 2:13;...
They — Their enemies. Brook — Possibly he means some such river which ran into Euphrates, and so gave them opportunity of carrying their spoils by water unto Babylon....