Isaiah 16 - Introduction
_MOAB IS EXHORTED TO YIELD OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST'S KINGDOM. MOAB IS THREATENED FOR HER PRIDE. THE PROPHET BEWAILETH HER. THE JUDGMENT OF MOAB._ _Before Christ 712._... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOAB IS EXHORTED TO YIELD OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST'S KINGDOM. MOAB IS THREATENED FOR HER PRIDE. THE PROPHET BEWAILETH HER. THE JUDGMENT OF MOAB._ _Before Christ 712._... [ Continue Reading ]
SEND YE THE LAMB— After Isaiah, in the former part of this prophesy, had described the calamity and the lamentation of the Moabites, he here stands still, as on a sudden; then addresses the Moabites, and informs them as well of the causes of this judgment, as of the means which, if properly applied,... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The counsel contains a complex of various offices, equity, justice, humanity, to be exercised toward... [ Continue Reading ]
WE HAVE HEARD OF THE PRIDE OF MOAB— These words exhibit the effect or success of the counsel. The prophet shews that the Moabites would not receive, but despise it; the cause whereof he shews to be, the arrogance and pride of the nation; and the immediate cause of that pride, he tells us, are the _d... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE SHALL MOAB HOWL— The prophet, foreseeing that the Moabites would proudly reject the counsel he gave them, takes occasion thence to repeat and continue his tragical prophecy concerning the calamity which should happen to them by the divine determination. This prophesy is of the same argumen... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE FIELDS, &C.— _For the fields of Heshbon are put to shame; the vine of Sibmah languisheth, whose generous shoots overpowered the mighty lords of the nations: they reached unto Jazer; they strayed to the desert; her branches extended themselves, they passed over the sea._ The literal meaning o... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE SHOUTING, &C.— _For, upon thy summer-fruits, and upon thy vintage, the destroyer hath fallen._ Lowth. The meaning of the phrase, _I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer,_ or, _I will lament with the lamentation of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah,_ is, "I mingle my tears with the tears of the citi... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THE HIGH PLACE— The meaning of the verse is, that the Moabites, as their last efforts, should go to their altars, there to perform their sacred rites, to appease the anger of their deity; but, wearied herewith, they should enter into the sanctuary, into some more sacred and celebrated sanctuary o... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE WORD—SINCE THAT TIME, &C.— _This is the word which Jehovah spake concerning Moab long ago._ Lowth. The prophet had described the future calamity of Moab; but, as the completion of the prophesies was often at a great distance, it happened that men neglected, or at least less regarded, tho... [ Continue Reading ]