Isaiah 15:5-8

5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

Isaiah 15:5-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 15

This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites; two of their principal cities are mentioned as made desolate, Isa 15:1 the inhabitants in divers places are represented as weeping and mourning, and showing various signs of it, Isa 15:2,3 yea, not only the common people, but the armed soldiers also, Isa 15:4 nay, even the prophet himself, Isa 15:5 the reasons of which were the great drought, so that there were no grass, nor green thing, Isa 15:6 the carrying away of their good things, either by themselves or others, Isa 15:7 the flight and cry of the people to the very borders of the land, Isa 15:8 and the great effusion of blood, Isa 15:9.

Cross References 12

  • 1. S ver 3
  • 2. Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 48:31
  • 3. S Numbers 21:29
  • 4. S Genesis 13:10
  • 5. Jeremiah 48:3,34
  • 6. Jeremiah 4:20; Jeremiah 48:5
  • 7. Isaiah 19:5-7; Jeremiah 48:34
  • 8. Psalms 37:2; Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 24:4,7,11; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 37:27; Isaiah 40:7; Isaiah 51:6,12; Hosea 4:3; Joel 1:12
  • 9. S Isaiah 14:17
  • 10. Jeremiah 14:5
  • 11. Isaiah 30:6; Jeremiah 48:36
  • 12. S Numbers 21:16
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