Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so. Reply of Judah to Moab's entreaty. WE Jews - HAVE HEARD OF THE PRIDE OF MOAB - We reject Moab's supplication, for his pride, BUT HIS LIES - false boasts - "shall not be so" (Hebrew lo keen) - shall not be ratified (Zephaniah 2:8); shall prove vain (; ). 'It shall not be so: his lies shall not so effect it.'...

6._We have heard of the pride of Moab. _The Prophet added this statement by way of anticipation. It might be thought that men could not believe what he had promised about restoring the _throne _of the king and destroying the Moabites, who at that time were in a flourishing state of riches, and were defended by strong fortresses, and who, puffed up with the prosperity which they now enjoyed, were exceedingly _proud_. Besides, their haughtiness, with which they scorned the unhappy Jews, was a disagreeable and powerful weapon for discouraging or shaking their minds. To provide against this temptation, he relates that their boasting was well known, but that their _pride _would not prevent God from overthrowing them; because no array of armed forces, no treasures of riches, no multitude of men, can withstand God. Isaiah speaks of it as a thing extensively known, that the Moabites are puffed u...

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 16:6. _WE HAVE HEARD OF THE PRIDE OF MOAB_ - "We have heard the pride of Moab"] For גא _ge_, read גאה _geah_; two MSS., one ancient, and Jeremiah 48:29. Zephaniah, Zephaniah 2:8, in his prophecy against Moab, the subject of which is the same with that of Jeremiah in his _forty-eighth_ chapter, (Isaiah 15:1,) enlarges much on the pride of Moab, and their insolent behaviour towards the Jews: - "I have heard the reproach of Moab; And the revilings of the sons of Ammon: Who have reproac

WE HAVE HEARD OF THE PRIDE OF MOAB - We Jews; we have “all” heard of it; that is, we “know” that he is proud. The evident design of the prophet here is, to say that Moab was so proud, and was well known to be so haughty, that he would “reject” this counsel. He would neither send the usual tribute to the land of Judea Isaiah 16:1, thus acknowledging his dependence on them; nor would he give protection to the exiled Jews as they should wander through his land, and “thus” endeavor to conciliate their favor, and secure their friendship. As a consequence of this, the prophet proceeds to state that heavy judgments would come upon Moab as a nation. HE IS VERY PROUD - The same thing is stated in the parallel place in Jeremiah 48:29 (compare

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

WE HAVE HEARD OF THE PRIDE OF MOAB,.... These are the words of the prophet, either in the name of the Lord, or in the person of the Jews, or of other nations, who had heard very frequently, and from many persons, and from every quarter, of the excessive pride of this people, and had many instances of it related to them, which foretold their ruin; for pride comes before a fall: ([HE] IS VERY PROUD): though his original was so base and infamous; and therefore there is little reason to hope or expect that he would take the advice above given him, or do the good offices for the Jews he was exhorted to; his pride was such, that he would despise the counsel of God, and would never stoop to do any favour for his people: [EVEN] OF HIS HAUGHTINESS, AND HIS PRIDE, AND HIS WRATH; of his contempt of the people of God, and his wrath against them: [BUT] HIS LIES [SHALL] NOT BE SO; or, "his strength...

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

WE. Compare Isaiah 6:8; Genesis 1:26. HIS LIES SHALL NOT BE SO. his resources do not correspond....