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Lament and grieve for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/16.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />The entire land of Moab weeps. Yes, everyone in Moab mourns for the cakes of raisins from Kir-hareseth. They are all gone now.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/16.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/16.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/16.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely <i>they are</i> stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/16.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; Everyone shall wail. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn; Surely <i>they are</i> stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/16.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Therefore Moab shall wail; everyone of Moab shall wail. You shall moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail. You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth As those who are utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Therefore Moab will wail for Moab; everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, As those who are utterly stricken <i>and</i> discouraged.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail; let every one of them wail for Moab. You who are completely devastated, mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail; let every one of them wail for Moab. Mourn, you who are completely devastated, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Tell everyone in Moab to mourn for their nation. Tell them to cry and weep for those fancy raisins of Kir-Hareseth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />That is why Moab will wail. Everyone will wail for Moab. Mourn and grieve over the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The people of Moab will weep because of the troubles they suffer. They will all weep when they remember the fine food they used to eat in the city of Kir Heres. They will be driven to despair. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/16.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore, let Moab not wail, let everyone wail for Moab. Lament and grieve deeply for the ruined remains of Kir-hareseth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/16.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />So Moab wails over its demise--they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Ah, let not Moab wail; let everyone wail for Moab. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore Moab howls for Moab, all of it howls, "" It meditates for the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth, "" They are surely struck.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Therefore howl doth Moab for Moab, all of it doth howl, For the grape-cakes of Kir-Hareseth it meditateth, Surely they are smitten.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For this shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the foundations of the wall of Haresheth shall ye sigh; surely they were smitten.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For this reason, Moab will wail to Moab; each one will wail. Speak of their wounds to those who rejoice upon the brick walls.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail, let everyone wail for Moab; For the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth let them sigh, stricken with grief. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore let Moab wail, let everyone wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab howl; every one shall howl for Moab, for the foundations of the walls are destroyed; surely they groan like the sick.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because of this, Moab shall howl and all shall howl for Moab. You shall moan as the sick for the foundations of the wall that are destroyed<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/16.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, Every one shall wail; for the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, Sorely stricken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but thou shalt care for them that dwell in Seth, and thou shalt not be ashamed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/16-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=3458" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/16.htm">A Prophecy of Moab's Devastation</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty. <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">Therefore</a> <a href="/hebrew/4124.htm" title="4124: mō·w·’āḇ (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Lot, also his desc. and the territory where they settled. ">let Moab</a> <a href="/hebrew/3213.htm" title="3213: yə·yê·lîl (V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms) -- To howl, make a howling. A primitive root; to howl or yell.">wail;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3213.htm" title="3213: yə·yê·lîl (V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms) -- To howl, make a howling. A primitive root; to howl or yell.">let them wail</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kul·lōh (N-msc:: 3ms) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">together</a> <a href="/hebrew/4124.htm" title="4124: lə·mō·w·’āḇ (Prep-l:: N-proper-fs) -- A son of Lot, also his desc. and the territory where they settled. ">for Moab.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1897.htm" title="1897: teh·gū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To moan, growl, utter, speak, muse. A primitive root; to murmur; by implication, to ponder.">Moan</a> <a href="/hebrew/809.htm" title="809: la·’ă·šî·šê (Prep-l:: N-mpc) -- A raisin cake. Feminine of 'ashiysh; something closely pressed together, i.e. A cake of raisins or other comfits.">for the raisin cakes</a> <a href="/hebrew/7025.htm" title="7025: qîr-Or Qiyr Chareseth; from qiyr and cheres; fortress of earthenware; Kir-Cheres or Kir-Chareseth, a place in Moab."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7025.htm" title="7025: ḥă·re·śeṯ (N-proper-fs) -- Or Qiyr Chareseth; from qiyr and cheres; fortress of earthenware; Kir-Cheres or Kir-Chareseth, a place in Moab.">of Kir-hareseth,</a> <a href="/hebrew/389.htm" title="389: ’aḵ- (Adv) -- Surely, howbeit. Akin to 'aken; a particle of affirmation, surely; hence only.">you who are utterly</a> <a href="/hebrew/5218.htm" title="5218: nə·ḵā·’îm (N-mp) -- Smitten, afflicted. Or nakat; from naka'; smitten, i.e. afflicted.">stricken.</a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Jeremiah 48:31-32</a></span><br />Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres. / I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36-38</a></span><br />Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished. / For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth. / On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/27-31.htm">Ezekiel 27:31-32</a></span><br />They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning. / As they wail and mourn over you, they will take up a lament for you: ‘Who was ever like Tyre, silenced in the middle of the sea?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm">Lamentations 2:11</a></span><br />My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/1-2.htm">Lamentations 1:2</a></span><br />She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/6-6.htm">Amos 6:6</a></span><br />You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm">Zephaniah 2:9</a></span><br />Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Isaiah 15:5</a></span><br />My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/21-2.htm">Isaiah 21:2-4</a></span><br />A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.” / Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see. / My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/22-4.htm">Isaiah 22:4</a></span><br />Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7-9</a></span><br />The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12-13</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, / and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/33-7.htm">Isaiah 33:7</a></span><br />Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/34-13.htm">Isaiah 34:13-15</a></span><br />Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. / The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose. / There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/35-10.htm">Isaiah 35:10</a></span><br />So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.</p><p class="hdg">shall Moab</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/15-2.htm">Isaiah 15:2-5</a></b></br> He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads <i>shall be</i> baldness, <i>and</i> every beard cut off… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/48-20.htm">Jeremiah 48:20</a></b></br> Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,</p><p class="hdg">Kirhareseth</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Isaiah 16:11</a></b></br> Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15:1</a></b></br> The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, <i>and</i> brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, <i>and</i> brought to silence;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/3-25.htm">2 Kings 3:25</a></b></br> And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about <i>it</i>, and smote it.</p><p class="hdg">mourn.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/8-19.htm">Isaiah 8:19</a></b></br> And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/14-32.htm">Afflicted</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Cakes</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Cries</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-25.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-26.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-4.htm">Foundations</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-3.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/psalms/139-21.htm">Grieve</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-25.htm">Hareseth</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-3.htm">Howl</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Kir</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Kir-Hareseth</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Lament</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-6.htm">Moab</a> <a href="/ezra/9-1.htm">Moabites</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-11.htm">Moan</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Raisin</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Raisin-Cakes</a> <a href="/psalms/129-2.htm">Sorely</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-7.htm">Stricken</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-9.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-7.htm">Together</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-15.htm">Utterly</a> <a href="/psalms/118-12.htm">Verily</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-8.htm">Wail</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Weeping</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/19-10.htm">Afflicted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-18.htm">Cakes</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-12.htm">Cries</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-10.htm">Crushed</a> <a href="/isaiah/18-3.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-10.htm">Foundations</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-11.htm">Grief</a> <a href="/jeremiah/42-10.htm">Grieve</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Hareseth</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-1.htm">Howl</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Kir</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Kir-Hareseth</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-8.htm">Lament</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Moab</a> <a href="/genesis/19-37.htm">Moabites</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm">Moan</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-8.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">Raisin</a> <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Raisin-Cakes</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-5.htm">Sorely</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-4.htm">Stricken</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-11.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-16.htm">Sweet</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-5.htm">Together</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-9.htm">Utterly</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-26.htm">Verily</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-12.htm">Wail</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-9.htm">Weeping</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 16</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/16-1.htm">Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/16-6.htm">Moab is threatened for her pride</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/16-9.htm">The prophet bewails her</a></span><br><span class="reftext">12. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/16-12.htm">The judgment of Moab</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Moab, a nation descended from Lot, often found itself in conflict with Israel. The wailing signifies impending judgment and disaster. Historically, Moab was known for its pride and idolatry, which often led to its downfall. The call to wail is a recognition of the severe consequences of their actions and the divine judgment they are about to face.<p><b>let them wail together for Moab.</b><br>The repetition emphasizes the collective nature of the mourning. It suggests a communal experience of grief, indicating that the entire nation will suffer. This communal aspect reflects the interconnectedness of ancient societies, where the fate of the nation was shared by all its people. The wailing together also underscores the severity of the judgment, as it affects every individual within Moab.<p><b>Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth,</b><br>Raisin cakes were a delicacy in the ancient Near East, often associated with celebrations and offerings to deities. Kir-hareseth, a fortified city in Moab, was known for its production of these cakes. The mention of moaning for the raisin cakes symbolizes the loss of prosperity and the end of joyful occasions. It also highlights the cultural and economic impact of the judgment, as even the symbols of wealth and festivity are destroyed.<p><b>you who are utterly stricken.</b><br>This phrase addresses those who are deeply affected by the calamity. The term "utterly stricken" conveys a sense of total devastation and helplessness. It reflects the comprehensive nature of the judgment, leaving the people of Moab without hope or recourse. This condition of being stricken can be seen as a result of their persistent sin and rebellion against God, serving as a warning to others about the consequences of turning away from divine commandments.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moab.htm">Moab</a></b><br>An ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea, often in conflict with Israel. Moab is frequently mentioned in the Bible as a nation that both opposed and interacted with Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/k/kir-hareseth.htm">Kir-hareseth</a></b><br>A significant city in Moab, known for its production of raisin cakes, which were likely a symbol of prosperity and cultural identity.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah conveyed God's messages to the people of Judah and surrounding nations, including Moab.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/l/lamentation.htm">Lamentation</a></b><br>The act of mourning or expressing deep sorrow, often in response to judgment or calamity.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/r/raisin_cakes.htm">Raisin Cakes</a></b><br>A product of Kir-hareseth, symbolizing the wealth and cultural pride of Moab, which would be lost due to impending judgment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_pride.htm">The Consequences of Pride</a></b><br>Moab's lamentation is a direct result of its pride and self-reliance. We must be cautious of pride in our own lives, recognizing that it can lead to downfall.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_divine_judgment.htm">The Reality of Divine Judgment</a></b><br>God's judgment is real and affects nations and individuals. We should live with an awareness of God's righteousness and justice.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_mourning.htm">The Importance of Mourning</a></b><br>Lamentation is a biblical response to sin and judgment. It is important to grieve over sin and its consequences, both personally and corporately.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/cultural_symbols_and_idolatry.htm">Cultural Symbols and Idolatry</a></b><br>The raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth symbolize cultural pride and idolatry. We should examine our lives for any cultural or material idols that may take precedence over our relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_repentance.htm">Hope in Repentance</a></b><br>While judgment is certain, the Bible consistently offers hope through repentance. Turning back to God can restore and renew us.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 16</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_moab's_fall_in_history.htm">Isaiah 16:7 predicts Moab’s downfall; are there any historical records or archaeological findings that confirm this specific collapse? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/which_'fortified_city'_in_isaiah_25_2.htm">In Isaiah 25:2, which specific “fortified city” is being referenced, and what archaeological evidence supports or contradicts its complete destruction?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_moab_sending_lambs_to_judah.htm">Isaiah 16:1 mentions sending lambs as tribute; is there archaeological or historical evidence that Moab actually offered such payments to Judah?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_16_4-5_align_with_judah's_fall.htm">Isaiah 16:4-5 prophesies a throne established in mercy; how do we reconcile this claim with Judah's eventual destruction and exile?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab.</span>--Either the whole nation wailing for its downfall, or the survivors wailing for the fallen.<p><span class= "bld">The foundations of Kir-hareseth.</span>--The name has been commonly explained as the "brick fortress," (<span class= "ital">city of pottery</span>)<span class= "ital">. </span>Others, with a different derivation, make it "city of the sun." Others, again (E. H. Palmer, in the <span class= "ital">Athenaeum </span>of August 19, 1871), connect it with <span class= "ital">hareith, </span>the modern Moabite name for the hillocks on which the rock fortresses were built. The word for <span class= "ital">foundations </span>occurs in <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm" title="Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.">Hosea 3:1</a>, for <span class= "ital">raisin-cakes </span>("flagons of wine" in the Authorised version (comp. <a href="/2_samuel/6-19.htm" title="And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.">2Samuel 6:19</a>, Song <a href="/songs/2-5.htm" title="Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.">Song of Solomon 2:5</a>), and has been supposed to refer to this as the main product of Kir-hareseth, the traffic in which she lost through the destruction of the vineyards, mentioned in the next verse. <span class= "ital">Ruins </span>would, in any case, be better than "foundations."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Every one shall howl</span>; rather, <span class="accented">the whole of it shall howl</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the entire nation collectively (comp. Herod., 8:99; 9:24). <span class="cmt_word">For the foundations of Kir-Hareseth shall ye mourn</span>. The word here translated "foundations" is elsewhere always rendered "flagons" or "flagons of wine" (<a href="/2_samuel/6-19.htm">2 Samuel 6:19</a>; <a href="/songs/2-5.htm">Song of Solomon 2:5</a>; <a href="/hosea/3-1.htm">Hosea 3:1</a>). And this rendering is more agreeable to the context than "foundations," since it is the loss of the products of the soil which is threatened in the next three verses. "Kir-Hareseth" is probably the same place as the "Kir-Moab" of <a href="/isaiah/15-1.htm">Isaiah 15:1</a>. It was one of the principal cities of Moab (see <a href="/2_kings/2-25.htm">2 Kings 2:25</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/16-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Therefore</span><br /><span class="heb">לָכֵ֗ן</span> <span class="translit">(lā·ḵên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">let Moab</span><br /><span class="heb">מוֹאָ֛ב</span> <span class="translit">(mō·w·’āḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4124.htm">Strong's 4124: </a> </span><span class="str2">Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled</span><br /><br /><span class="word">wail;</span><br /><span class="heb">יְיֵלִ֥יל</span> <span class="translit">(yə·yê·lîl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3213.htm">Strong's 3213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To howl, make a howling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">let them wail</span><br /><span class="heb">יְיֵלִ֑יל</span> <span class="translit">(yə·yê·lîl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3213.htm">Strong's 3213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To howl, make a howling</span><br /><br /><span class="word">together</span><br /><span class="heb">כֻּלֹּ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(kul·lōh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for Moab.</span><br /><span class="heb">לְמוֹאָ֖ב</span> <span class="translit">(lə·mō·w·’āḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4124.htm">Strong's 4124: </a> </span><span class="str2">Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Mourn</span><br /><span class="heb">תֶּהְגּ֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(teh·gū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1897.htm">Strong's 1897: </a> </span><span class="str2">To moan, growl, utter, speak, muse</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for the raisin cakes</span><br /><span class="heb">לַאֲשִׁישֵׁ֧י</span> <span class="translit">(la·’ă·šî·šê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_808.htm">Strong's 808: </a> </span><span class="str2">A, foundation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Kir-hareseth,</span><br /><span class="heb">חֲרֶ֛שֶׂת</span> <span class="translit">(ḥă·re·śeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7025.htm">Strong's 7025: </a> </span><span class="str2">Kir-hareseth -- 'wall of earthenware', a fortified city in Moab</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you who are utterly</span><br /><span class="heb">אַךְ־</span> <span class="translit">(’aḵ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_389.htm">Strong's 389: </a> </span><span class="str2">A particle of affirmation, surely</span><br /><br /><span class="word">stricken.</span><br /><span class="heb">נְכָאִֽים׃</span> <span class="translit">(nə·ḵā·’îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5218.htm">Strong's 5218: </a> </span><span class="str2">Smitten, afflicted</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/16-7.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 16:7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/16-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 16:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 16:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 16:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 16:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>