Isaiah 16:4

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. LET MINE OUTCASTS DWELL WITH THEE, MOAB - `Let the outcasts of Moab dwell with thee' (Judah) (Horsley). [Thus, nidaachay Mow'aab (H4124) is 'the outcasts of Moab, the final -ay, being the old termination of the construct state. Or else the construction is, 'the outcasts of me, Moab.'] So the Septuagint, Chaldaic, and Syriac. How just the retribution in kind, that Moab, who had refused "bread and water" to Israel when coming from Egypt, should now herself supplicate Israel for shelter and food, and supplicate in vain, became of her unhumbled pride! FOR THE EXTORTIONER - the Assyrian oppressor probably: Hebrew, hammeetz: wringer of milk...

4._Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab. _The Prophet addresses the _Moabites_, as if he were humbly beseeching them in the name of the people at large. “You are neighbors, related to us by blood; receive and assist those who are in distress: and if you do not choose to assist, at least do them no harm.” God, who usually undertakes the cause of his people, is represented by the Prophet as if he performed the part of a suppliant. It is certain, that the Moabites did not at all act in this manner towards the Jews, but, on the contrary, that they joined their efforts with the enemies of the Jews to do them injury. But, as I said a little before, the Prophet sets before our eyes that justice which even nature demands, that the cruel violation of it may be the more abhorred. This passage ought to be carefully observed; for God shows how great is the care which he takes of his people, since...

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 righteousness, it may lengthen thy quiet. And this may be applied to the great gospel duty of submission to Christ. Send him the lamb, the best you have, yourselves a living sacrifice. When you come to God, the great Ruler, come in the name of the Lamb, the Lamb of God. Those who will not submit to Christ, shall be as a bird that wanders from her nest, which shall be snatched up by the next bird of prey. Those who will not yield to the fear of God, shall be made to yield to the fear of every thing else. He advises them to be kind to the seed of Israel. Those that expect to find favour when in trouble themselves, must show favour to those in trouble. What is here said concerning the throne of Hezekiah, a...

Verse Isaiah 16:4. _LET MINE OUTCASTS DWELL WITH THEE, MOAB_ - "Let the outcasts of Moab sojourn with thee, O Zion"] Setting the points aside, this is by much the most obvious construction of the _Hebrew_, as well as most agreeable to the context, and the design of the prophet. And it is confirmed by the _Septuagint_ οἱ φυγαδες Μωαβ, and _Syriac_. _THE OPPRESSORS_ - "The oppressor"] Perhaps the Israelites, who in the time of Ahab invaded Judah, defeated his army, slaying _one_ _hundred and twenty thousand_ men, and brought the kingdom to the brink of destruction. Judah, being now in a more prosperous condition, is represented as able to receive and to protect the fugitive Moabites. And with those former times of distress the security and flourishing state of the kingdom under the government of Hezekiah is contrasted....

LET MINE OUTCASTS - This may be understood as the language of Judea, or of God. ‘Mine outcasts’ may mean the exiles of Judea, or God may call them “his.” The sense is essentially the same. It denotes those who were fugitives, wanderers, exiles from the land of Judea, and who took refuge in the land of Moab; and God claims for them protection. DWELL WITH THEE - Not dwell permanently, but sojourn (יגוּרוּ _yāgûrû_), let them remain with you as exiles; or let them find a refuge in your land. BE THOU A COVERT TO THEM - A refuge; a hiding-place; a place of “secrecy” (סתר _sêther_). FROM THE FACE OF THE SPOILER - That is, the conqueror from whose desolating career they would seek a refuge in the land of Moab. Who this “spoiler” would be, is not known.

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

LET MINE OUTCASTS DWELL WITH THEE,.... Not whom God had cast out, but who were the Lord's people, and whom he owns as such, though cast out by the enemy, or obliged to flee, and quit their country; let these be sojourners in thy land; let them continue awhile there; let them dwell privately and peaceably: MOAB, BE THOU A COVERT TO THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE SPOILER: that is, O king of Moab, or kingdom of Moab, as the Targum, hide and protect the Jews that shall flee to thee for shelter, from the face of the spoiler of their land and substance, Sennacherib king of Assyria; and, to encourage them to do these things, it is suggested that they would not be long troublesome to them, and would quickly be in a capacity of requiting them, and of being serviceable to them in like distress: FOR THE EXTORTIONER IS AT AN END; or "the squeezer", or "wringer out" a; that oppressed them, and wrung the...

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

LET MINE OUTCASTS, &C. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "Let the outcasts", &c. DWELL. sojourn. Compare 1 Samuel 22:3; 1 Samuel 22:4. THE SPOILER: i.e. Sennacherib. EXTORTIONER. Hebrew. _muz._ Occurs only here. OPPRESSORS. treaders down. Hebrew. _ramas._ Occurs only here....