Isaiah 16:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Let Mine outcasts, &c. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "Let the outcasts", &c.

dwell. sojourn. Compare 1 Samuel 22:3; 1 Samuel 22:4.

the spoiler: i.e. Sennacherib.

extortioner. Hebrew. muz. Occurs only here.

oppressors. treaders down. Hebrew. ramas. Occurs only here.

Isaiah 16:4

4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortionerc is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.