Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. I WILL BEWAIL - for its desolation, though I belong to another nation (note, ). WITH THE WEEPING OF JAZER - as Jazer weeps. THE SHOUTING FOR THY SUMMER FRUITS, AND FOR THY HARVEST, IS FALLEN - thy joyous vintage and harvest shoutings have ceased. Rather, as the Chaldaic, Vulgate, Syriac, and Septuagint virtually 'upon thy summer fruits (Hebrew, literally, summers) and upon thy harvests the shouting (the battle-shout, and the shout of devastating treaders down, instead of the joyous shout of the grape gatherers, usual at the vintage) is fallen' ...

9._Therefore I will bewail. _The Prophet here takes upon him the character of another person, as we have formerly remarked; for in the name of the Moabites he laments and groans. It is undoubtedly true that believers always shudder at the judgments of God, and cannot lay aside the feelings of human nature, so as not to commiserate the destruction of the wicked. Yet he does not describe his own feelings; but his intention is to give additional weight to his instruction, that no one may entertain a doubt as to the accomplishment. He therefore represents in the person of a Moabite, as on a stage, the mourning and grief which shall be felt by all after that calamity, in order to hold out to the Jews a confirmation of this promise, which otherwise might have been thought to be incredible. _Because on thy summer-fruits and on thy harvest a shouting shall break forth, _or _shall fall. _(267) Th...

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 16:9. _WITH THE WEEPING_ - "As with the weeping"] For בבכי _bibechi_, a MS. reads בכי _bechi_. In Jeremiah 48:32, it is מבכי _mibbechi_. The _Septuagint_ read כבכי _kibeki, as with weeping_, which I follow. _FOR THY SUMMER FRUITS AND FOR THY HARVEST IS FALLEN_ - "And upon thy vintage the destroyer hath fallen."] ועל קצירך הידד נפל _veal_ _ketsirech heidad naphal_. In these few words there are two great mistakes, which the text of Jeremiah 48:32 rectifies. For קצירך _ketsirech_, it has בצירך _betsirech_; and for הידד _heidad_, שדד shoded; both which corrections the _Chaldee_ in this place confirms. As to the first,

THEREFORE, I WILL BEWAIL - So great is the desolation that I, the prophet, will lament it, though it belongs to another nation than mine own. The expression indicates that the calamity will be great (see the note at Isaiah 15:5). WITH THE WEEPING OF JAZER - That is, I will pour out the same lamentation for the vine of Sibmah which I do for Jazer; implying that it would be deep and bitter sorrow (see Jeremiah 48:32). I WILL WATER THEE WITH MY TEARS - Indicating the grievous calamities that were coming upon those places, on account of the pride of the nation. They were to Isaiah foreign nations, but he had a heart that could feel for their calamities. F

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

THEREFORE I WILL BEWAIL WITH THE WEEPING OF JAZER THE VINE OF SIBMAH,.... That is, bewail the one, as he had done the other, both places with the fruits about them being destroyed by the enemy; or "therefore with weeping I will bewail" (most vehemently lament, an usual Hebraism) "Jazer", and "the vine of Sibmah": the prophet here represents the Moabites weeping for their vines more especially, they being a people addicted to drunkenness, in which their father was begotten; hence Bacchus is said to be the founder of many of their cities, see Jeremiah 48:32. The Targum is, "as I have brought armies against Jazer, so will I bring slayers against Sibmah;'' I WILL WATER THEE WITH MY TEARS: shed abundance of them, see Psalms 6:6: O HESHBON, AND ELEALEH; perhaps a

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

WATER THEE. make thee drunk. ELEALEH. See note on Isaiah 15:4. THE SHOUTING FOR THY SUMMER FRUITS AND FOR THY HARVEST IS FALLEN. on thy summer fruits and thy harvest. war-cry hath fallen,...