George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 16:3
Night. Seek a retreat in the darkest places; or protect Israel when they shall flee before the Assyrians. Their cruelty is thus insinuated, Amos i.
Night. Seek a retreat in the darkest places; or protect Israel when they shall flee before the Assyrians. Their cruelty is thus insinuated, Amos i.
Verse Isaiah 16:3. _TAKE COUNSEL _- "Impart counsel"] The _Vulgate_ renders the verbs in the beginning of this verse in the singular number, So the _Keri_; and so likewise _sixty-one_ MSS. of _Kennic...
TAKE COUNSEL - Hebrew, ‘Bring counsel;’ or cause it to come (הבאו _hâbı̂'ı̂û_, or as it is in the _keri_ הביאי). The Vulgate, renders this in the singular number, and so is the _keri_, and so many m...
CHAPTER 16 The Burden of Moab Continued 1. _God's call to Moab to repent (Isaiah 16:1)_ 2. _Moab's pride and judgment (Isaiah 16:6)_ The fifteenth and sixteenth Chapter s form one prophecy. Moab's l...
The Moabites now in Sela, a city of Edom (2 Kings 14:7 *; _cf._ Judges 1:36, _mg.*),_ exhort each other to send the tribute of lambs once paid to Israel (2 Kings 3:4) to Jerusalem to secure her protec...
TAKE COUNSEL. Bring advice. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "Bring thou counsel". EXECUTE JUDGMENT. perform an arbitrator's duty. Hebrew. _pelilah_...
Arrived in Edom, the Moabitish refugees are within the sphere of Judah's political influence (see Introd. Note). Their first anxiety, therefore, is to secure protection and the right of asylum by send...
_Take counsel, execute judgment_ Or, APPLY COUNSEL, PERFORM ARBITRATION; i.e. "adopt wise and effectual measures to defend us from our enemies." _make thy shadow as the night …_ Be to us as "the shad...
The address of Moab, through its ambassadors, to the court of Judah. Most of the older commentators took a different view of these verses, holding that here the prophet points out to the Moabites the...
TAKE COUNSEL, &C.— We have here the second counsel given to the Moabites; wherein, _first,_ is the counsel itself; Isaiah 16:3 and the reason of the counsel;—middle of the fourth and the fifth verse....
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 1. MOAB (Continued) b. INVITATION TEXT: Isaiah 16:1-5 1 Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. 2 For it...
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. TAKE COUNSEL, EXECUTE JUDGMENT ... - Take measures for es...
16:3 justice; (g-5) Or 'make a decision.'...
1. RV 'Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Sela _which is_ toward the wilderness,' etc. Mesha, king of Moab, had rendered to Israel tribute of lambs and rams (2 Kings 3:4). The prophet he...
An appeal from the Moabites to Zion that she will interpose and shelter the fugitives. TAKE COUNSEL] 'bringcounsel,'i.e. give us advice. EXECUTE JUDGMENT] 'make a decision,' by interposing between us...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 16 MOAB ASKS FOR HELP V1 From the town called Sela in the desert, M...
_הָבִ֤יאִי_† עֵצָה֙ עֲשׂ֣וּ פְלִילָ֔ה שִׁ֧יתִי כַ †...
Continuing the prophecy concerning Moab, the prophet proceeds to describe how in her distress she will appeal to Judah for sanctuary Isaiah 16:1). This will be refused, and so great will be the distre...
Take counsel, execute judgment; (c) make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth. (c) He shows what Moab would have done, when Israel t...
It appears, that in the days of David, Moab was under tribute to Israel, and paid gifts 2 Samuel 8:2. And it should seem, that Moab had at the time of the Prophet's ministry, withdrawn her allegiance....
3._Assemble a council. _(252) He proceeds with the same subject; for if we wish rightly to understand this passage, we must set before our minds the dreadful ruin of the Moabites. Their crimes are bro...
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...
TAKE COUNSEL, EXECUTE JUDGMENT,.... This refers either to what goes before, that they would take the counsel given, and do that which was just and right, by paying tribute to the king of Judah; or to...
_Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth._ Ver. 3. _Take counsel, execute judgment._] Or, Make a dec...
_Take counsel_, &c. We have here the second counsel given to the Moabites, which “contains a complex of various offices, equity, justice, humanity, to be exercised toward those of the Israelites whom...
THE CONDITIONS OF DELIVERANCE...
Take counsel, execute judgment, planning deliverance instead of oppression, as heretofore; MAKE THY SHADOW AS THE NIGHT IN THE MIDST OF THE NOONDAY, thereby concealing all those who trust in this shad...
TAKE: _ Heb._ bring...
1-5 God tells sinners what they may do to prevent ruin; so he does to Moab. Let them send the tribute they formerly engaged to pay to Judah. Take it as good advice. Break off thy sins by righteousnes...
TAKE COUNSEL; consider seriously among yourselves what course to take to prevent your utter ruin. EXECUTE JUDGMENT; do those things which are just and right, as to all men, so particularly to my peopl...
Isaiah 16:3 Take H935 (H8685) counsel H6098 execute H6213 (H8798) judgment H6415 Make H7896 (H8798) shadow...
CHAPTER 16 MOAB, HER REFUGEES IN DESPERATE STRAITS, SEEK REFUGE IN EDOM AND CONSIDER REFUGE IN JUDAH, BUT DECIDE AGAINST IT. God was ready to provide Moab with a safe shelter in Judah, but they prefe...
MOAB'S CONSIDERATION OF AN APPEAL TO THE KING OF JUDAH (ISAIAH 16:1). Analysis of Isaiah 16:1. a Send the lambs, for the ruler of the land, from Sela which is towards the wilderness, to the mount of...
CONTENTS: Women of Moab anticipate the Davidic Kingdom and lament the pride of Moab. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who will not yield to the fear of God, will be made to yield to the fear of ev...
Isaiah 16:1. _Send ye the lamb from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion._ Send the tribute of the lambs from all the towns of Moab, and seek alliance with the house of David,...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 16:1 THE BURDEN OF MOAB (CONTINUED). This portion of the "burden" is divided into three sections. In section 1 (from Isaiah 16:1 to the end of...
Let's turn to Isaiah chapter 16 as we continue our study through the prophecy of Isaiah. Now, in these next few Chapter s that we are covering here in Isaiah, behind the scenes Assyria is arising as a...
Daniel 4:27; Ezekiel 45:9; Hebrews 13:2; Isaiah 1:17; Isaiah 25:4;...
Take counsel — Consider seriously what course to take. Shadow — Or, as the shadow of the night, large and dark, as the shadow of the earth is in the night — season. Conceal and protect my people in th...