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. Sermons
I. A LAND WITH NO JOY IN IT. That must be a land on which rests no Divine benedictions; and it must be the picture of - II. A LIFE WITH NO JOY IN IT. That must be a life on which rests no Divine smile. We are like the birds, we can only sing in God's sunshine. Inexpressibly sad is human life without God. "The joy of the Lord is our strength;" but the sadness of agnosticism, atheism, Comtism, secularism, is the all-sufficing proof that these can never take the place of religion for man, who fain would sing for joy. Let such systems prevail, and the song of earth would cease. From the silent, songless land a heart-cry to the great heavens would go, saying - "Oh for a vision! Oh for the face!" R.T. (J. Parker, D. D.) People David, IsaiahPlaces Arnon, Elealeh, Heshbon, Jazer, Kir-hareseth, Moab, Sela, Sibmah, ZionTopics Battle, Bewail, Bitterly, Cause, Cry, Drench, Dropping, Elealeh, Ele-a'leh, Fallen, Fruit, Fruits, Getting, Grain, Harvest, Harvests, Heshbon, Jaazer, Jazer, Joy, O, Ripened, Shout, Shouting, Shouts, Sibmah, Sorrow, Sounding, Stilled, Summer, Tear, Tears, Vine, Vines, War-cry, Weep, Weeping, WeepsOutline 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 16:9 1135 God, suffering of Library 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 16:9 NIVIsaiah 16:9 NLT Isaiah 16:9 ESV Isaiah 16:9 NASB Isaiah 16:9 KJV Isaiah 16:9 Bible Apps Isaiah 16:9 Parallel Isaiah 16:9 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 16:9 Chinese Bible Isaiah 16:9 French Bible Isaiah 16:9 German Bible Isaiah 16:9 Commentaries Bible Hub |