My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
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Interpretation
This verse speaks in the wider setting of holiness and judgment as Isaiah unfolds its message.
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This thought runs through Isaiah 15:1-5.
Glossary
- Moab Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Kerak.
- Eglath-shelishiyah Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Al Safi.
- Horonaim Place
- Two caverns, a city of Moab to the south of the Arnon, built, apparently, upon an eminence, and a place of some importance ( Isa. 15:5 ; Jer. 48:3 , 5, 34). Modern identification: El Iraq.
- Luhith Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Kathrabba.
- Zoar Place
- Small, a town on the east or south-east of the Dead Sea, to which Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom ( Gen. 19:22 , 23). It was originally called Bela (14:2, 8). Modern identification: Al Safi.