Isaiah 16:6

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right [are] his devices.

Isaiah 16:6 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab
These are the words of the prophet, either in the name of the Lord, or in the person of the Jews, or of other nations, who had heard very frequently, and from many persons, and from every quarter, of the excessive pride of this people, and had many instances of it related to them, which foretold their ruin; for pride comes before a fall: ([he] is very proud):
though his original was so base and infamous; and therefore there is little reason to hope or expect that he would take the advice above given him, or do the good offices for the Jews he was exhorted to; his pride was such, that he would despise the counsel of God, and would never stoop to do any favour for his people: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath;
of his contempt of the people of God, and his wrath against them: [but] his lies [shall] not be so;
or, "his strength" shall "not be so" ^F2; as his wrath: he shall not be able to do what in his pride and wrath he said he would do; all his wicked thoughts and devices, all his haughty and wrathful expressions, will signify nothing; they will all be of no effect, for God resisteth the proud, see ( Jeremiah 48:30 ) . It may be rendered, "not right", that of "his diviners" ^F3; their words and works, what they say or do; so the word is used in ( Isaiah 44:25 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (wydb Nk al) "non sicut, fortitudo ejus"; so some in Vatablus.
F3 (wydb Nk-al) "non rectum divinorum ejus", Vitringa.

Isaiah 16:6 In-Context

4 Sojourn in thee do My outcasts, O Moab, Be a secret hiding-place to them, From the face of a destroyer, For ceased hath the extortioner, Finished hath been a destroyer, Consumed the treaders down out of the land.

5 And established in kindness is the throne, And [one] hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

6 We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right [are] his devices.

7 Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are smitten.

8 Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.