Isaiah 15:5

(Jeremiah 48:34; Jeremiah 48:5; Jeremiah 48:3) The new theme is introduced by an expression of the writer's sympathy with the homeless fugitives: My heart crieth out for Moab(cf. Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 16:11).

his fugitives R.V. renders less suitably "her nobles." The word as pointed means "bolts," which is here taken as a symbol for princes. But it is better, with the Targum and nearly all modern commentators, to change the vowel, and translate "fugitives" as in Isaiah 43:14, where, curiously enough, the A.V. gives the same rendering as the R.V. here. The R.V. however is right in using the fem. "her"; Moab is here regarded not as a people but as a land.

Zoar(Genesis 19:22) lies near the S.E. corner of the Dead Sea; the flight therefore is southward, towards Edom.

a heifer of three years old R.V. is better: to Eglath-shelishiyah; i.e. probably, "the third Eglath." The locality is not known.

the mounting up( the ascent, R.V.) of Luhithis located by Eusebius" Onomasticon between Rabba and Zoar.

the way of Horonaim Jeremiah (Jeremiah 48:5) speaks of "the slopeof H.," which lay apparently (Jeremiah 48:34) between Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.