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Isaiah 16:2-12

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2 Then, like 1fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of 2Moab will be at the fords of the 3Arnon.
3 "Give us advice, make a decision; Cast your 4shadow like night at high noon; 5Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.
4 "Let the outcasts of Moab stay with you; Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer." For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased, 6Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.
5 A 7throne will even be established in lovingkindness, And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of 8David; Moreover, he will seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.
6 9We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; 10His idle boasts are false *.
7 Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the 11raisin cakes of 12Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.
8 For the fields of 13Heshbon have withered, the vines of 14Sibmah as well; The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts; 15Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.
9 Therefore * I will 16weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, O 17Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your 18summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.
10 19Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field; In the 20vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No 21treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.
11 Therefore * my 22heart intones like a harp for Moab And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.
12 So it will come about when Moab 23presents himself, When he 24wearies himself upon his 25high place And comes to his sanctuary to pray, That he will not prevail.
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Isaiah 16:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 16

This chapter is a continuation of the prophecy against Moab; in which the prophet gives good advice, but in case of a haughty neglect of it, which he foresaw, threatens with ruin, and fixes a time for it. He advises the Moabites to pay their tribute to the king of Judah, or otherwise they should be turned out of their land, as a bird out of its nest, Isa 16:1,2 to protect, and not betray the people of the Jews that should flee to them, because of the Assyrian army, Isa 16:3,4 and for this end gives a great character of the king of Judah, and assures them of the stability of his kingdom, Isa 16:5 but for their pride, wrath, and lying, they are threatened with destruction, and are represented as howling under it, Isa 16:6,7 because of the spoil of their cities, vineyards, and fields, so that they have no harvest, nor vintage, nor gathering of summer fruits, or joy on these accounts, Isa 16:8-10 for which even the prophet expresses a concern, Isa 16:11 and after having observed the application of the Moabites to their gods without success, Isa 16:12 the chapter is closed with an assurance of the certain ruin of Moab, and of the time when it should be, Isa 16:13,14.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 25

  • 1. Proverbs 27:8
  • 2. Jeremiah 48:20, 46
  • 3. Numbers 21:13, 14
  • 4. Isaiah 25:4; Isaiah 32:2
  • 5. 1 Kings 18:4
  • 6. Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 14:4; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 51:13; Isaiah 54:14
  • 7. Isaiah 9:6, 7; Isaiah 32:1; Isaiah 55:4; Daniel 7:14; Micah 4:7; Luke 1:33
  • 8. Isaiah 9:7
  • 9. Jeremiah 48:29; Amos 2:1; Obad 3, 4; Zephaniah 2:8, 10
  • 10. Jeremiah 48:30
  • 11. 1 Chronicles 16:3
  • 12. 2 Kings 3:25; Jeremiah 48:31
  • 13. Isaiah 15:4
  • 14. Numbers 32:38
  • 15. Jeremiah 48:32
  • 16. Jeremiah 48:32
  • 17. Isaiah 15:4
  • 18. Jeremiah 40:10, 12; Jeremiah 48:32
  • 19. Isaiah 24:8; Jeremiah 48:33
  • 20. Judges 9:27; Isaiah 24:7; Amos 5:11, 17
  • 21. Job 24:11; Amos 9:13
  • 22. Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 63:15; Jeremiah 48:36; Hosea 11:8; Philippians 2:1
  • 23. Numbers 22:39-41; Jeremiah 48:35
  • 24. 1 Kings 18:29
  • 25. Isaiah 15:2

Footnotes 10

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