Lambs are to be sent from Selah to the mount of the daughter of Zion, as Moab's daughters scatter like wandering birds at the fords of the Arnon. The chapter pleads that Judah hide Moab's outcasts from the destroyer, then rises to its center: a throne established in lovingkindness in the tent of David, occupied by one judging in truth, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness (16:5). Against this stands Moab's pride and empty boastings. Lament follows: wailing for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth, the broken vine of Sibmah whose shoots reached Jazer and the sea, and vineyards where no treader treads and the vintage shout is silenced, the speaker's heart sounds like a harp for Moab. Moab's prayers at his high place fail, and Jehovah fixes the term: within three years, Moab's glory is brought into contempt.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–5 Send the Lamb: Shelter My Outcasts, O Moab
B. 6–14 The Pride of Moab and the Withered Vine of Sibmah

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Jeremiah 486 verses
- Jeremiah 48:20Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
- Jeremiah 48:29We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
- Jeremiah 48:33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
- Jeremiah 48:35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
- Jeremiah 48:42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 48:46Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
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Isaiah 153 verses
- Isaiah 15:2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
- Isaiah 15:4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
- Isaiah 15:5My 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 shall raise up a cry of destruction.
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2 Kings 32 verses
- 2 Kings 3:4And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
- 2 Kings 3:25And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
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1 Kings 182 verses
- 1 Kings 18:4For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
- 1 Kings 18:29And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
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Isaiah 101 verse
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2 Kings 141 verse
- 2 Kings 14:7He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
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Proverbs 271 verse
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