For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
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Gill's Exposition
For it shall be,.... Or, "otherwise it shall be" (z); if ye do not pay this tribute:
that as a wandering bird cast out of the nest: or, "as a wandering bird, the nest sent out": that is, as a bird…
Barnes' Notes
For it shall be - It shall happen in the time of the calamity that shall come upon Moab. As a wandering bird - (See Isa 10:14.) The same idea is presented in Pro 27:8 : As a bird that wanders from her…
God has made it to appear that he delights not in the ruin of sinners by telling them what they may do to prevent the ruin; so he does here to Moab.
I. He advises them to be just to the house of…
Cambridge Bible
The verse gives no good sense in its present position. Not only does it obscure the connexion between Isa 16:16 and Isa 16:16, but its language of prediction reveals an affinity with Isa 15:9. It has…
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