1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 15:1 | The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent. | Moab. Which would be visited in three years' time (chap. 16:14.) either by Ezechias, or by Sennacherib, though history be silent on this head. The Moabites had been very cruel, Amos 1:and 2:--- Night. Suddenly. (Calmet) --- Their misery was so much the greater. (Worthington) --- Ar. The capital. (Calmet) |
| Isaiah 15:2 | The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places, to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: *on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven. Jeremias 48:37.; Ezechiel 7:18. | House. Protestants, "he is come up to Baiith," (Haydock) or the royal family is gone to the temple of their idol, Chamos, to lament. (St. Jerome) (Menochius) (Calmet) --- Shaven. As in mourning, Jeremias 48:37. |
| Isaiah 15:3 | In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl, and come down weeping. | |
| Isaiah 15:4 | Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl: his soul shall howl to itself. | Itself. Every one shall deplore his own distress. |
| Isaiah 15:5 | My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor, a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction. | My. A charitable heart will grieve for the misfortune of an enemy. (Worthington) --- I shall join in the general lamentations, though Moab has always been so great an enemy of Israel. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the heart of Moab cries in itself to Segor." (Haydock) --- We will retire thither. (Chaldean) --- Bars. Princes. Protestants, "his fugitives shall," etc. --- Heifer. Strong and ungovernable. Hebrew, "to Heglath and to Shelishia for," etc., though we may as well adhere to the Vulgate, Septuagint, etc. |
| Isaiah 15:6 | For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished. | Nemrim. Or Nemra, (Numbers 32:3.) to the north of Segor. (Calmet) --- The country around hence became barren. (St. Jerome) |
| Isaiah 15:7 | According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows. | Willows. That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon; others render it a valley of the Arabians, (Challoner) or "of crows," to which their bodies will be exposed, Isaias 57:6. |
| Isaiah 15:8 | For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof. | Cry. Of iniquity, or rather of grief. |
| Isaiah 15:9 | For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will bring more upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. | Dibon. Septuagint, etc., read, "Dimon," which signifies, "blood." I will give it a better claim to this appellation. --- Lion. Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will bring the Arabs up on Dimon, and will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adama." (Haydock) |