George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 15:8
Cry. Of iniquity, or rather of grief.
Cry. Of iniquity, or rather of grief.
FOR THE CRY IS GONE ROUND ABOUT ... - The cry of distress and calamity has encompassed the whole land of Moab. There is no part of the land which is not filled with lamentation and distress. THE HOWL...
CHAPTER 15 The Burden of Moab _ The Destruction Announced (Isaiah 15:1)_...
THE OVERTHROW OF MOAB. A sudden catastrophe has overwhelmed Ar (Numbers 21:15 *) and Kir in one night. The daughter (read _bath_ for Bayith; _cf_. Jeremiah 48:18) of Dibon (Numbers 21:30 *) has gone u...
EGLAIM. Not identified; probably the _En-eglaim_ of Ezekiel 47:10....
The flight of the Moabites....
Summing up the effect of the previous description and explaining the forsaking of the land. _the cry_(of destruction, Isaiah 15:5) _is gone round_ We should expect the two places in the second half of...
FOR THE CRY IS GONE ROUND, &C.— The prophet contemplating, with the most lively imagination, the motion and consternation of all Moab, as if present to his view, scarcely satisfies himself in painting...
B. IMPUDENT EASTERNERS - Chapter S 15-17 CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1. MOAB a. INVASION TEXT: Isaiah 15:1-9 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a nig...
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. EGLAIM () - Eneglaim Not the Agallim of Eusebius 8 miles from Areopolis...
THE CRY] i.e. of destruction (Isaiah 15:5). No part of the land escapes....
1. BURDEN] see on Isaiah 13:1. BECAUSE.. NIGHT] RV 'For in a night.' AR OF MOAB] i.e. city of Moab. The capital (Numbers 22:36; Joshua 13:16) is doubtless meant. The places referred to in the chapter...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 15 GOD WILL PUNISH MOAB V1 God gave Isaiah this special message abo...
כִּֽי ־הִקִּ֥יפָה הַ זְּעָקָ֖ה אֶת ־גְּב֣וּל...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning Assyria consi...
Everything contained in these verses is like the Prophet's roll, written within, and without, and full of nothing else but lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Alas! what an awful thing must it be, to...
8._The cry is gone round about the borders of Moab. _(245) כי, (_ki_,) _for_, is added for the sake of ornament. He means that every part of that country all around shall be full of _crying _and _howl...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
FOR THE CRY IS GONE FOUND ABOUT THE BORDERS OF MOAB,.... The cry of destruction and howling because of it; the places mentioned, as is observed by some, being upon the borders of the land. Heshbon was...
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. Ver. 8. _For the cry is gone round about, &c._] When the prophet thus desc...
_For the waters_, &c. The prophet, in these verses, sets forth the causes of lamentation among the inhabitants of the southern part of Moab. The first is the desolation of their fruitful fields, Isaia...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab, thus filling their entire country; THE HOWLING THEREOF UNTO EGLAIM, a town near the Dead Sea, AND THE HOWLING THEREOF UNTO BEER-ELIM, in northeaste...
Their cry fills all the parts of the country....
Isaiah 15:8 cry H2201 around H5362 (H8689) borders H1366 Moab H4124 wailing H3215 Eglaim H97 wailing H3215 Elim...
‘For the cry is gone round the borders of Moab, Its howling to Eglaim, and its howling to Beer-elim. For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, For I will bring yet more on Dimon, A lion on him wh...
CONTENTS: The burden of Moab. Prophecy of great desolations upon the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Great and dismal changes may in the providence of God be made within a very short tim...
Isaiah 15:1. _The burden of Moab._ Joshua had spared this nation by divine command, being, as descendants of Lot, relatives of the Hebrews. Deuteronomy 2:9. But they made no returns: Eglon king of Moa...
_The harden of Moab_ THE MOABITE STONE From the inscription of Mesha (c. 900 B.C.), found at Dibon in 1869, and commonly known as the “Moabite stone,” we learn that the Moabites spoke a language dif...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:1 The third oracle concerns Moab. Jeremiah 48:1 parallels and expands this passage....
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 15:1 THE BURDEN OF MOAB. The present chapter and the next are very closely connected, and may be regarded as together constituting "the burden of Moab." It has been argued on critic...
Now in chapter 15, he turns his attention against Moab, that area that lies just east of the Jordan and of the Dead Sea. And he begins to speak of the destruction of Moab and of some of the major citi...
Ezekiel 47:10; Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:20; Jeremiah 48:31...
The cry — Their cry fills all the parts of the country....