7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
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Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. …
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-9)Here the prophet further describes the woeful and piteous lamentations that should be heard throughout all the country of Moab when it should become a prey to the Assyrian army. “By this time the cry has gone round about all the borders of Moab ,” Isa. 15:8. Every corner of the country has received the alarm, and is in the utmost confusion upon it. It has reached to Eglaim , a city at one end of t…
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