Isaiah 15

5. My--The prophet himself is moved with pity for Moab. Ministers, in denouncing the wrath of God against sinners, should do it with tender sorrow, not with exultation.
fugitives--fleeing from Moab, wander as far as to Zoar, on the extreme boundary south of the Dead Sea. HORSLEY translates, "her nobility," ( Hosea 4:18 ).
heifer, &c.--that is, raising their voices "like a heifer" (compare Jeremiah 48:34 Jeremiah 48:36 ). The expression "three years old," implies one at its full vigor ( Genesis 15:9 ), as yet not brought under the yoke; as Moab heretofore unsubdued, but now about to be broken. So Jeremiah 31:18 , Hosea 4:13 . MAURER translates, "Eglath" (in English Version, "a heifer") Shelishijah (that is, the third, to distinguish it from two others of the same name).
by the mounting up--up the ascent.
Luhith--a mountain in Moab.
Horonaim--a town of Moab not far from Zoar ( Jeremiah 48:5 ). It means "the two poles," being near caves.
cry of destruction--a cry appropriate to the destruction which visits their country.

6. For--the cause of their flight southwards ( 2 Kings 3:19 2 Kings 3:25 ). "For" the northern regions and even the city Nimrim (the very name of which means "limpid waters," in Gilead near Jordan) are without water or herbage.

7. Therefore--because of the devastation of the land.
abundance--literally, "that which is over and above" the necessaries of life.
brook of . . . willows--The fugitives flee from Nimrim, where the waters have failed, to places better watered. Margin has "valley of Arabians"; that is, to the valley on the boundary between them and Arabia-Petræa; now Wady-el Arabah. "Arabia" means a "desert."

8. Eglaim--( Ezekiel 47:10 ), En-eglaim. Not the Agalum of EUSEBIUS, eight miles from Areopolis towards the south; the context requires a town on the very borders of Moab or beyond them.
Beer-elim--literally, "the well of the Princes"--(so Numbers 21:16-18 ). Beyond the east borders of Moab.

9. Dimon--same as Dibon ( Isaiah 15:2 ). Its waters are the Arnon.
full of blood--The slain of Moab shall be so many.
bring more--fresh calamities, namely, the "lions" afterwards mentioned ( 2 Kings 17:25 , Jeremiah 5:6 , 15:3 ). VITRINGA understands Nebuchadnezzar as meant by "the lion"; but it is plural, "lions." The "more," or in Hebrew, "additions," he explains of the addition made to the waters of Dimon by the streams of blood of the slain.