Isaiah 16:10

"Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen."

Key Reflection

Isaiah 16:10 expresses profound sorrow over the destruction that is coming upon Moab's fertile lands, symbolizing the loss of hope and prosperity. Through this lament, God conveys His deep empathy and the gravity of the impending judgment, likening His grief to that of a devastated landowner whose crops and harvest are lost.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And gladness ... -The gladness and joy that was commonly felt in the field producing a rich and luxuriant harvest. Out of the plentiful field -Hebrew, ‘From Carmel;’ but Carmel means a fruitful field as well as the mountain of that name (see the note atIsaiah 10:18). I have made their vintage shouting to cease -That is, by the desolation that has come upon the land. The vineyards are destroyed; and of course the shout of joy in the vintage is no more heard.

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