Isaiah 15 - Introduction
_THE LAMENTABLE STATE OF MOAB._ _Before Christ 712._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LAMENTABLE STATE OF MOAB._ _Before Christ 712._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BURDEN OF MOAB— In this and the next chapter, which contain the _third_ discourse, the prophet, in a most lively manner, foretels the fate of the Moabites; wherein we have, _first,_ the title prefixed to it, Isaiah 15:1. _Secondly,_ the context, or body of the prophecy, Isaiah 15:1 to Isaiah 16:... [ Continue Reading ]
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, and declares his own participation of their sorrows: the meaning of the next clause is, _"His fugitiv... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE CRY IS GONE ROUND, &C.— The prophet contemplating, with the most lively imagination, the motion and consternation of all Moab, as if present to his view, scarcely satisfies himself in painting the scene: he repeats again in this place the proposition, and supplies by a general declaration wh... [ Continue Reading ]