_Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion._ Ver. 1. _Send ye the lamb._] For prevention of those lions, Isa 15:9 submit to Hezekiah, your right liege lord, a lamb, _i.e., _ your appointed number of tribute lambs, in token of homag... [ Continue Reading ]
For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. Ver. 2. _For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird, &c._] Or, Otherwise it shall be that as, _a_ &c., _i.e., _ except ye do as I have advised you, Isa 16:1 a double mischie... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth._ Ver. 3. _Take counsel, execute judgment._] Or, Make a decree, or deal equally and uprightly; shoew the like kindness to Abraham's posterity as he once did to... [ Continue Reading ]
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. Ver. 4. _Let mine outcasts._] Who are dear to me, Jer 30:17 though I may seem to have cast off the care... [ Continue Reading ]
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. Ver. 5. For in mercy (or piety) shall the throne be established.] Hezekiah's throne shall, but especially Christ's, from whom ye may... [ Continue Reading ]
We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his lies [shall] not [be] so. Ver. 6. _We have heard of the pride of Moab._] His harsh and haughty carriage toward God's poor people, though he were advised the contrary. Isaiah 16... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] stricken. Ver. 7. _Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab._] One Moabite to another, or each within himself, _ut solent desperantes._ For the foundations of Kirhareseth.] Whic... [ Continue Reading ]
For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. Ver. 8. _For the fields of Heshb... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. Ver. 9. _Therefore I will bewail with the weeping._] _Defleo fletum (Paronomasia), _ that is, the mise... [ Continue Reading ]
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to cease. Ver. 10. _And gladness is taken away._] _Laetitia_... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh. Ver. 11. Wherefore my bowels shall sound _a_ like an harp for Moab.] The "elect of God, holy and beloved, have bowels of mercy, tenderness, and kindness" toward their very enemies also, Col 3:12 whom they do... [ Continue Reading ]
_And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail._ Ver. 12. _That Moab is weary on the high place._] Tired out in his superstitious services, by all which he is not a button the better, but a grea... [ Continue Reading ]
This [is] the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. Ver. 13. _This is the word that the Lord hath spoken._] And is therefore sure and certain; for the word of the Lord "cannot be broken" Joh 10:35 _ Since that time,_] _i.e., _ Since Balaam, hired by Balak (say the Hebrews... [ Continue Reading ]
_But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and] feeble._ Ver. 14. _Within three years._] In which time the sins of the Moabites shall be full,... [ Continue Reading ]