Isaiah 16:10

10 Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard; no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes^[a] in the winepresses. I have put an end to the shouting.

Isaiah 16:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 16:10

And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
field
Or "is gathered" ^F8, though their harvest was not; all cause of joy and gladness was removed; a plentiful field being foraged, trampled upon, and destroyed by the enemy, and left desolate without any to manure it: and in the vineyards there shall be no singing;
as there used to be by the men that gathered the grapes, and trod the wine presses; but now there would be no men in the vineyards, there being no grapes to gather or tread, as follows: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses;
the way in those times and countries being for men to tread the grapes, and the wine out of them, with their feet, in vats or vessels, and not in presses with screws and weights, as now: I have made their [vintage shouting] to cease;
by suffering the enemy to come in among them, which had destroyed their vintage, and so prevented their shouting, and spoiled their song.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (Poan) "colligetur", Montanus; "ad verbum, collectum est", Vatablus.

Isaiah 16:10 In-Context

8 For Heshbon's terraced vineyards and the grapevines of Sibmah have withered. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choice vines that reached as far as Jazer and spread to the desert. Their shoots spread out and reached the Dead Sea.

9 So I join with Jazer to weep for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer [fruit] and your harvest.

10 Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard; no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes in the winepresses. I have put an end to the shouting.

11 Therefore I moan like [the sound of] a lyre for Moab, [as does] my innermost being for Kir-heres.

12 When Moab appears on the high place, when he tires himself out and comes to his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit wine