I pause over this verse to remark, and admire, the tender mercies of the Prophet. Though an enemy, yet the Prophet weeps over Moab. Alas! who that is born of a woman, but must feel for the miseries induced by sin in our common nature? Methinks here is a loud appeal to the ministers of Jesus, to have very feeling hearts over the miseries coming upon sinners: How did the bowels of Jesus yearn over the approaching desolations of Jerusalem? Luke 13:34.
Verse Isaiah 15:5. _MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB_ - "The heart of Moab crieth within her"] For לבי _libbi, my heart_, the _Septuagint_ reads לבו _libbo, his heart_, or לב _leb_; the _Chaldee_, לבו...
MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB - This is expressive of deep compassion; and is proof that, in the view of the prophet, the calamities which were coming upon it were exceedingly heavy. The same sentim...
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...
ZOAR. Now (probably) _Tell esh Shaghur._ not him that wandereth. Deuteronomy 34:3.Jeremiah 48:34. AN HEIFER. [flee] like an heifer , &c. Compare Jeremiah 48:34. MOUNTING UP. as
(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....
The flight of the Moabites....
MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB— Hitherto the prophet had set forth the lamentation of the Moabites; but seeing these future evils as it were present to his own mind, he compassionates their griefs, a...
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...
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they s...
15:5 Eglath-Sheli-shijah. (d-14) Meaning, 'a heifer of three years old.'...
FUGITIVES] RV 'her nobles.' AN HEIFER OF THREE YEARS OLD] i.e. not broken in: implying that the place was hitherto impregnable. Places are thus sometimes compared to animals (Jeremiah 46:20; Hosea 4:1...
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...
לִבִּי֙ לְ מֹואָ֣ב יִזְעָ֔ק בְּרִיחֶ֕הָ עַד ־
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...
My (f) heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar, (g) an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim they (h) sh...
My. A charitable heart will grieve for the misfortune of an enemy. (Worthington) --- I shall join in the general lamentations, though Moab has always been so great an enemy of Israel. (Calmet) --- Sep...
5._My heart shall cry out for Moab. _At length he assumes the character of a mourner. But it may be thought to be strange and inconsistent in him to bewail the calamity of the Moabites; for he ought r...
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...
MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB,.... These seem to be the words of the prophet, pitying them as they were fellow creatures, though enemies; which shows humanity in him, and signifies that their calami...
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they...
_My heart shall cry out for Moab_ “Hitherto the prophet had set forth the lamentations of the Moabites, but, seeing these future evils, as it were, present to his own mind, he compassionates their gri...
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old, literally, "whose bolts (extended) to Zoar, the three-year-old heifer," that is, the locks or fortifi...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
HIS FUGITIVES SHALL FLEE UNTO ZOAR, AN HEIFER: Or, to the borders thereof even to Zoar as an heifer DESTRUCTION: _ Heb._ breaking...
MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB; their destruction approaching is so dreadful, that although they are a most vile nation, and by their implacable enmity against God and his people do abundantly deserv...
Isaiah 15:5 heart H3820 out H2199 (H8799) Moab H4124 fugitives H1280 Zoar H6820 three-year-old H7992 heifer H5697 Asce
‘My heart cries out for Moab, her nobles flee to Zoar, To Eglath-Shelishiyah, For by the ascent of Luhith they go up with weeping, For in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.' Pa...
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...
_My heart shall cry out for Moab_ THE BURDEN OF SOULS Too often have God’s servants spoken with dry eyes and hard voices of the doom of the ungodly; and have only made them more obdurate and determi...
_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...
2 Samuel 15:23; 2 Samuel 15:30; Genesis 13:10; Genesis 14:2; Ge
Moab — Tho' they are a most vile nation. Zoar — Zoar was a town bordering upon Moab. Of destruction — Such a cry as men send forth when they are just falling into the pit of destruction....