CHAPTER XV _Prediction of very heavy calamities about to fall upon the_ _Moabites_, 1-9. This and the following chapter, taken together, make one entire prophecy, very improperly divided into two parts. The time of its delivery, and consequently of its accomplishment, which was to be in three ye... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 15:2. _HE IS GONE TO BAJITH, AND TO DIBON_] עלה הבית _alah_ _habbayith_, should be rendered, _he is gone to the HOUSE_, i.e., to their chief temple, where they practiced idolatry. Dibon was the name of a tower where also was an idolatrous temple; thither they went to weep and pray befo... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 15:3. _WITH SACKCLOTH_] שק _sak_. The word is in the plural שקים _sakkim, sacks_, in one of _De Rossi's_ MSS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 15:4. _THE ARMED SOLDIERS _- "The very loins"] So the _Septuagint_, ἡ οσφυς, and the _Syriac_. They cry out violently, with their utmost force.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 15:5. _MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB_ - "The heart of Moab crieth within her"] For לבי _libbi, my heart_, the _Septuagint_ reads לבו _libbo, his heart_, or לב _leb_; the _Chaldee_, לבו libbo. For בריחיה _bericheyha_, the _Syriac_ reads ברוחה _berocheh_; and so likewise the _Septuagint... [ Continue Reading ]
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 עבר _aber, praeteriit_, "he hath passed;" and the _Chaldee_ by יתבזזון _yithbazezun, diripientur_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 15:9. _THE WATERS OF DIMON_] Some have _Dibon_, others have _Ribon_ and _Rimon_. _St. Jerome_ observes that the same town was called both _Dibon_ and _Dimon_. The reading is therefore indifferent. _UPON HIM THAT ESCAPETH OF MOAB_, c. - "Upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the rem... [ Continue Reading ]