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

Isaiah points to the pride and arrogance of Moab about their wealth that can be taken away in a single night. He calls everyone to mourn with him for the loss ...

This chapter continues and concludes the burden of Moab. In it, Isa 16:1-5 God has made it to appear that he delights not in the ruin of sinners.

God tells sinners what they may do to prevent ruin; so he does to Moab. Let them send the tribute they formerly engaged to pay to Judah. Take it as good advice.

Today's lesson continues the burden of Moab, describing a holy charge from God that the Moabites will ignore.

He advises the Moabites to pay their tribute to the king of Judah, or otherwise they should be turned out of their land, as a bird out of its nest.

(Isa 16:3-4 NIV) "Give us counsel, render a decision. Make your shadow like night-- at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees.

Send a land-ruler's tribute of lambs from Sela desert-wards to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. This v. is like a long-drawn trumpet-blast.

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, ...

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