Isaiah 16:10

And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease. GLADNESS IS TAKEN AWAY - such as is felt in gathering a rich harvest. There shall be no harvest or vintage, owing to the desolation, therefore no "gladness....

10._Joy is taken away. _He confirms, by different words, what he has now said, that the whole country shall be desolate and forsaken, so that there shall never again be in it a harvest or a vintage. When he threatens that God will cause the vine-dressers to cease to sing, he refers to an ancient custom; for when they gathered the vintage, they usually testified their joy both by dancing and by singing. Hence these words of Virgil, _The exhausted vine-dresser now addresses by song his farthest rows _(268) In like manner, the sailors, when they approach the harbour, raise their shout of joy, ( κἐλευσμα,) because, having finished their toils, and escaped dangers, they see that they have hope of obtaining some leisure or refreshment. It is as if the Prophet had said, “When the produce of the harvest shall be taken away, nothing will be left to them but to lament their povert

6-14 Those who will not be counselled, cannot be helped. More souls are ruined by pride than by any other sin whatever. Also, the very proud are commonly very passionate. With lies many seek to gain the gratification of pride and passion, but they shall not compass proud and angry projects. Moab was famous for fields and vineyards; but they shall be laid waste by the invading army. God can soon turn laughter into mourning, and joy into heaviness. In God let us always rejoice with holy triumph; in earthly things let us always rejoice with holy trembling. The prophet looks with concern on the desolations of such a pleasant country; it causes inward grief. The false gods of Moab are unable to help; and the God of Israel, the only true God, can and will make good what he has spoken. Let Moab know her ruin is very near, and prepare. The most awful declarations of Divine wrath, discover the w...

Verse Isaiah 16:10. _NEITHER SHALL THERE BE SHOUTING_ - "An end is put to the shouting"] The _Septuagint_ read השבת _hishbeth_, passive, and in the third person; rightly, for God is not the speaker in this place. The rendering of the _Septuagint_ is πεπαυται γαρ κελευσμα, "the cry ceaseth;" which last word, necessary to the rendering of the _Hebrew_ and to the sense, is supplied by MSS. _Pachom_. and I. D. II., having been lost out of the other copies....

AND GLADNESS ... - The gladness and joy that was commonly felt in the field producing a rich and luxuriant harvest. OUT OF THE PLENTIFUL FIELD - Hebrew, ‘From Carmel;’ but Carmel means a fruitful field as well as the mountain of that name (see the note at Isaiah 10:18). I HAVE MADE THEIR VINTAGE SHOUTING TO CEASE - That is, by the desolation that has come upon the land. The vineyards are destroyed; and of course the shout of joy in the vintage is no more heard....

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 Isaiah 16:5) an offer of mercy is made to Moab on certain conditions, viz. that she return to her allegiance to the house of David, and show kindness to fugitive Israelites. In section 2 (Isaiah 16:6) she is supposed to have rejected this offer, and is threatened (as in Isaiah 15:1

AND GLADNESS IS TAKEN AWAY, AND JOY OUT OF THE PLENTIFUL FIELD,.... Or "is gathered" h, though their harvest was not; all cause of joy and gladness was removed; a plentiful field being foraged, trampled upon, and destroyed by the enemy, and left desolate without any to manure it: AND IN THE VINEYARDS THERE SHALL BE NO SINGING; as there used to be by the men that gathered the grapes, and trod the wine presses; but now there would be no men in the vineyards, there being no grapes to gather or tread, as follows: THE TREADERS SHALL TREAD OUT NO WINE IN [THEIR] PRESSES; the way in those times and countries being for men to tread the grapes, and the wine out of them, with their feet, in vats or vessels, and not in presses with screws and weights, as now: I HAVE MADE THEIR [VINTAGE SHOUTING] TO CEASE; by suffering the enemy to come in among them, which had destroyed their vintage, and so pre...

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 land bordered on the land of Israel. The historical facts concerning Moab may be studied and followed through the following passages: 1 Samuel 14:47; 2Sa 8:2; 2 Kings 1:11; 2 Kings 3:4; 2Ch 20:1-37; 2 Kings 8:20 ;

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 protection and shelter, since Edom was under the suzerainty of Judah. Judah can protect the Moabites, for it is under a righteous government. But the prayer is rejected, for the arrogance of Moab (Isaiah 25:11) is such that its flattery of Judah must be insincere. So Moab must mourn still more, lamenting for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth (in Isaiah 16:11 Kir-heres, p

PLENTIFUL. fruitful. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. PRESSES. wine-vat. Hebrew. _yekeb,_ not _gaih._ See note on Isaiah 5:2....