Isaiah calls everyone to wail for Moab's losses and weep for the end of the grape harvest and its products. He reveals the judgment will fall in three years.

God can soon turn laughter into mourning, and joy into heaviness. In God let us always rejoice with holy triumph; in earthly things let us always rejoice with ...

This chapter is a continuation of the prophecy against Moab; in which the prophet gives good advice, but in case of a haughty neglect of it, which he foresaw, ...

That is, this prophecy now delivered out is what comes from the Lord; it is the word of the Lord, and not of man, and so shall certainly come to pass; when this ...

13.This is the word. This concluding sentence is the ratification of the prophecy. It means that he has pronounced the decree of God himself, and that he has ...

Moab was famous for fields and vineyards; but they shall be laid waste by the invading army. God can soon turn laughter into mourning, and joy into heaviness.

This prophecy serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of pride and the importance of humility before God. As stated in Isaiah 16:13-14, only a remnant ...

This is the word which the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab [when Moab's pride and resistance to God were first known].

David Guzik commentary on Isaiah 16 continues the description of the judgment against Moab, and Isaiah's sorrow for the nation.