Isaiah 16:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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the fields. [as to] the fields. Compare Deuteronomy 32:32; 2 Kings 23:4.Jeremiah 31:40 (feminine).

Heshbon. Compare Isaiah 15:4.

languish. he [Moab] hath enfeebled.

and. supply [as to] and omit the colon.

the vine of Sibmah. Sibmah's vine.

lords. Probably plural of Majesty for "great lord of the nations",. title claimed by the kings of Assyria.

heathen. nations.

Jazer. Probably Beit Zer'ah, on the east of Jordan (Numbers 32:1.Joshua 13:25. Jos 21:39. 2 Samuel 24:5; 1 Chronicles 6:81; 1 Chronicles 26:31.Jeremiah 48:32; Jeremiah 48:32).

wandered through: or, strayed into.

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Isaiah 16:8

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.