Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
My heart shall cry out for Moab "The heart of Moab crieth within her" - For libbi , my heart, the Septuagint reads libbo , his heart, or leb ; the Chaldee, libbo . For bericheyha , the Syriac reads berocheh ; and so likewise the Septuagint, rendering it ͅ , Edit. Vat: or ̔ͅ , Edit. Alex. and MSS. I., D. II.
A heifer of three years old "A young heifer" - Hebrew, a heifer three years old, in full strength; as Horace uses equa trima , for a young mare just coming to her prime. Bochart observes, from Aristotle, Hist. Animal. lib. 4 that in this kind of animals alone the voice of the female is deeper than that of the male; therefore the lowing of the heifer, rather than of the bullock, is chosen by the prophet, as the more proper image to express the mourning of Moab. But I must add that the expression here is very short and obscure; and the opinions of interpreters are various in regard to the meaning. Compare Jeremiah 48:34.
Shall they go it up "They shall ascend" - For yaaleh , the Septuagint and a MS. read in the plural, yaalu . And from this passage the parallel place in Jeremiah 48:5 must be corrected; where, for yaaleh bechi , which gives no good sense, read yaaleh bo .
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 15:5:
Jeremiah 48:1
Lamentations 5:22
Ezekiel 38:17
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