Isaiah 16:9
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
Guilty Arrogance and Commendable CompassionW. Clarkson Isaiah 16:6-11
Lament Over MoabE. Johnson Isaiah 16:7-14
The Sadness of a Silent LandR. Tuck Isaiah 16:9, 10














These verses bring before us the picture of a country from which, at the proper seasons, there rises no harvest and no vintage song. "Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in its vineyard there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting." In every age and every land the gladness of the people has found expression in the joy of harvest, and no picture of woe, want, and desolation could be so effective as this simple one of the harvest-fields from which arise no song. Meditatively treated, we consider -

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.

In mercy shall the throne be established.
is never concealed in the Divine writings. God is always seeking to bring about the time when in mercy His throne shall be established, and when there shall sit upon it in truth one who will represent the ideal judgment and blessing of God. The fifth verse might be rendered, "In mercy shall a throne be established, and One shall sit upon it in truth." The prophet has constantly kept before his mind the image of an ideal king. The ideal was partially fulfilled in Hezekiah, yet only partially; the prophet was sure One was coming who would fulfil it in its utmost meaning, and he steadfastly kept his eye on the bright day when God's throne should be established among the nations, and His sceptre should be extended over all. God does not exist merely to destroy, nor does He rule only in order that He may humble and crush; His purpose is one of equity, righteousness, blessing, cultivation.

(J. Parker, D. D.)

People
David, Isaiah
Places
Arnon, Elealeh, Heshbon, Jazer, Kir-hareseth, Moab, Sela, Sibmah, Zion
Topics
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, Weeps
Outline
1. Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David
6. 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
     4464   harvest
     5198   weeping

Isaiah 16:8-9

     4534   vine

Isaiah 16:9-10

     5528   shouting

Isaiah 16:9-11

     5899   lament

Library
Isaiah
CHAPTERS 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

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