Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

Bible References

Vine

Numbers 32:38
Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names being changed) and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Isaiah 16:8

For the fields of Heshbon have languished and withered, and the vines of Sibmah as well;
The lords of the nations have trampled down [Moab’s] choice vine branches,
Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness;
Its tendrils stretched out, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

Jazer

Numbers 21:32
Now Moses sent men to spy out Jazer, and they overthrew its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
Joshua 21:39
Heshbon with its pasture lands and Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.

The spoiler

Jeremiah 48:8

“And the destroyer will come upon every city;
No city will escape.
The [Jordan] valley also will be ruined
And the plain will be devastated,
As the Lord has said.
Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, I am going to stay at Mizpah to stand [for you] before the Chaldeans who come to us [ministering to them and looking after the king’s interests]; but as for you, gather in wine, summer fruit and oil and store them in your utensils [designed for such purposes], and live in your cities that you have taken over.”