Isaiah 16:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

The fields

Isaiah 15:4

Isaiah 24:7

2 Samuel 1:21

The vine

Isaiah 16:9

Numbers 32:38

The lords

Isaiah 10:7

Jeremiah 27:6

General references

Joshua 13:16

Isaiah 24:7

Bible References

The fields

Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,

Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.

The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.

“O mountains of Gilboa,

Let not dew or rain be on you, nor fields of offerings;

For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

The vine

Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;
I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh;
For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

The lords

Yet it does not so intend,
Nor does it plan so in its heart,
But rather it is its purpose to destroy
And to cut off many nations.

Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.

General references

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

The new wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the merry-hearted sigh.