Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering. Sermons
I. WE LIVE FOR THE FUTURE. Few live in the present hour alone. Some amass property, looking forward to days of retirement and ease; some go to far-away fields of war to gather the laurels of victory, and to win what the world calls fame; and some seek stores of intellectual wealth, so as to secure the far-off coronet of scholarship and learned renown. But the harvest fails. Jealousy and envy do their work; and the ambassador is recalled, or the mind becomes feeble; through weariness or weakness the anticipated victory becomes a defeat. Somehow or other, either through events without or experience within, when God does not live in the heart and his glory is forgotten, the vintage fails. II. WE LOOK FOR JOY IN HARVEST. That is the time for music and joy, or, as the prophet says, for singing and shouting. It is a time of stretched-out branches and purple groves. And God intended us to have joy in harvest. All innocent pursuits end in blessing, if we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. But if not, then there is dullness and gloom and failure; for the Lord of harvest is not there. The vintage fails, because he is the true Vine, and we are the branches, and every branch separated from him is cut down and withered. III. WE LOOK FOR FRUIT AS WELL AS LEAFAGE. That is a remarkable sentence, "The treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses." Nothing but leaves! What a significant sentence! Everything seemed to promise well. There was the tender green of spring and the rich foliage of summer, but no blossoms hide under the luxuriant foliage. So it is with all mere convictions and resolves, with all passing sensations and excited feelings. We need ever to remember that the end of religion is fruit. Fruitful service, fruitful sacrifice. And without these, whatever else there be, the vintage fails. - W.M.S.
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land. The fugitives are supposed to have found a temporary home in Edom. The verse may be spoken by the prophet, or (as Prof. Cheyne suggests) it may proceed from the Moabite chiefs themselves, exhorting one another to take this step.(Prof. S. R. Driver, D. D.) (Buchanan Blake, B. D.) 1. Send Him the lamb, the best you have, yourselves a living sacrifice. 2. When you come to God, the great Ruler, come in the name of the Lamb, the Lamb of God. 3. Those that will not submit to Christ, nor be gathered unto the shadow of His wings, shall be as a bird that wanders from her nest (ver. 2), that shall either be snatched up by the next bird of prey, or shall wander endlessly in continual frights. Those that will not yield to the fear of God shall be made to yield to the fear of everything else. ( M. Henry.) People David, IsaiahPlaces Arnon, Elealeh, Heshbon, Jazer, Kir-hareseth, Moab, Sela, Sibmah, ZionTopics Caused, Cease, Cries, Crushing, Cry, Fertile, Field, Fruitful, Glad, Gladness, Grapes, Hushed, Joy, Joyful, Jubilant, Longer, Nobody, Noise, Orchards, Plentiful, Presses, Raised, Removed, Shout, Shouting, Shouts, Sing, Singing, Sings, Songs, Sounds, Stop, Stopped, Sung, Tread, Treader, Treaders, Treadeth, Treads, Vine-gardens, Vineyards, Vintage, Vintage-shouting, Wine, WinepressOutline 1. Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David6. Moab is threatened for her pride 9. The prophet bewails her 12. The judgment of Moab Dictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 16:10Library IsaiahCHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as … John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links Isaiah 16:10 NIVIsaiah 16:10 NLT Isaiah 16:10 ESV Isaiah 16:10 NASB Isaiah 16:10 KJV Isaiah 16:10 Bible Apps Isaiah 16:10 Parallel Isaiah 16:10 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 16:10 Chinese Bible Isaiah 16:10 French Bible Isaiah 16:10 German Bible Isaiah 16:10 Commentaries Bible Hub |