Isaiah 15:5-7 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-5

The country of Moab was of small extent, but very fruitful. It bordered upon the lot of Reuben on the other side Jordan and upon the Dead Sea. Naomi went to sojourn there when there was a famine in Canaan. This is the country which (it is here foretold) should be wasted and grievously harassed, not quite ruined, for we find another prophecy of its ruin (Jer. 48:1-47), which was accomplished by Nebuchadnezzar. This prophecy here was to be fulfilled within three years (Isa. 16:14), and therefore... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 15:6-9

Here the prophet further describes the woeful and piteous lamentations that should be heard throughout all the country of Moab when it should become a prey to the Assyrian army. ?By this time the cry has gone round about all the borders of Moab,? Isa. 15:8. Every corner of the country has received the alarm, and is in the utmost confusion upon it. It has reached to Eglaim, a city at one end of the country, and to Beer-elim, a city as far the other way. Where sin has been general, and all flesh... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:5

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 calamities were very great, that a stranger should be concerned for them, and such to whom they had been troublesome; so Jarchi understands it, who observes the difference between the true and false prophet, particularly between Isaiah and Balaam; but others, as Kimchi, interpret it of the Moabites... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate ,.... Or dried up, through a great drought that should come upon the land at this time; or being defiled with the blood of the slain, as Jarchi: it may denote the well watered pastures about Nimrim, that should become the forage of the enemy, and be trodden under foot by its army, or be forsaken by the proprietors of them. Josephus F13 De Bello Jud. l. 7. c. 6. sect. 3. Ed. Hudson. speaks of fountains of hot water springing up in the country... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:7

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up ,.... The great substance which the Moabites had got, and hoarded up: shall they carry away to the brook of the willows ; either the Moabites should carry their substance to some brook, it may be near Nimrim, where many willows grew, and cast it into the brook, or lay it by the brook side, in some private place, or under and among the willows, to preserve it from the enemy; or else the meaning is, that their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 libbo . For בריחיה bericheyha , the Syriac reads ברוחה berocheh ; and so likewise the Septuagint, rendering it εν αυτῃ , Edit. Vat: or εν ἑαυτῃ , Edit. Alex. and MSS. I., D. II. A heifer of three years old "A young heifer" - Hebrew, a heifer three years old, in full strength; as Horace... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:7

"Shall perish" - אבדו abadu or אבדה abadeh . This word seems to have been lost out of the text: it is supplied by the parallel place, Jeremiah 48:36 . The Syriac expresses it by עבר aber , praeteriit , "he hath passed;" and the Chaldee by יתבזזון yithbazezun , diripientur . To the brook of the willows "To the valley of willows" - That is, to Babylon. Hieron. and Jarchi in loc ., both referring to Psalm 137:2 . So likewise Prideaux, Le Clerc, etc. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-9

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 critical grounds that the bulk of the prophecy is quoted by Isaiah from an earlier writer, and that he has merely modified the wording and added a few touches here and there (so Gesenius, Rosenmüller, Hitzig, Maurer, Ewald, Knobel, and Cheyne). Jeremiah is thought to have also based his "judgment of Moab" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-9

Oracle concerning Moab. I. HISTORY or Moan. Zoar was the cradle of the race, the house of the tribal father Lot. While the brother-tribe of Ammon wandered to the pastures of the northeast, Moab remained nearer the original seat. They were confined to a narrower district by the invasion of the Amorites ( Numbers 21:26-30 ; Deuteronomy 2:10 , Deuteronomy 2:11 ). Their long feud with the tribe of Benjamin lasted to the time of Saul. But in the Book of Ruth we have a pleasant glimpse... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:5

My heart shall cry out for Moab (comp. Isaiah 16:9 , Isaiah 16:11 ). The prophet sympathizes with the sufferings of Moab, as a kindred people ( Genesis 19:37 ), and perhaps as having, in the person of Ruth, furnished an ancestress to the Messiah ( Matthew 1:5 ). His fugitives ; literally, her fugitives . The country is here personified, instead of the people , the former being feminine, the latter masculine. Shall flee unto Zoar . Zoar, the "little" town, spared for... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 15:6-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:5

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