Isaiah 16:9

Translations

Modern

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Traditional

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

Literal

Upon thus I weep with the weeping of Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah, I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh. For over your summer fruit—over your summer fruit the shouting have fallen silent.

Latin

Super hoc plorabo in fletu Jazer vineam Sabama; inebriabo de lacrima mea, Hesebon et Eleale, quoniam super vindemiam tuam et super messem tuam vox calcantium irruit.

Original

Hebrew

English

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Notes

Isaiah 16:6–11

The response to Moab’s request for asylum (Isaiah 16:1–4).

Isaiah 15:1–16:14

This message of judgment and sorrow was about Moab's fall. The many references to Moabite places show that Isaiah knew Moab well.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Messages Against the Nations Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 40:12
…they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
Isaiah 15:4–5
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
Jeremiah 40:10
As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
Jeremiah 48:32–34
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
Isaiah 9:3
You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
Judges 9:27
And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

Parallels

Zephaniah 2:8–11

Places

Elealeh: Moabite city assigned to Reuben; later prophecies of destruction Heshbon: Amorite city conquered by Moses, allotted to Reuben Jazer: A town in Gilead, allotted to Gad Sibmah: Moabite town known for its vineyards

Glossary

Book of Jeremiah Elealeh Heshbon Isaiah, Book of Jazer Kerioth Moab, Moabites Sibmah

Topics

Elealeh: Repossessed by the Moabites Grape: Cultivated in Vineyards by the Amorites Moabites: Prophesies Respecting: Desolation and Grief Prophets: Felt Deeply on Account of the Calamities Which They Predicted Sibmah: A City of the Tribe of Reuben Summer: Fruits of The Harvest: Failure of a Cause of Great Grief The Vine: Places Celebrated For: Sibmah Vineyards: The Vintage or Ingathering of Failure In, Occasioned Great Grief War: Evils of Wine: Places Celebrated For: Moab

Isaiah 16:9

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