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Isaiah 16:8

Languish "Are put to shame" - Here the text of Jeremiah leaves us much at a loss, in a place that seems to be greatly corrupted. The Septuagint join the two last words of this verse with the beginning of the following. Their rendering is: ͅ, . For ach they must have read al ; otherwise, how came they by the negative, which seems not to belong to this place? Neither is it easy to make sense of the rest without a small alteration, by reading, instead of ͅ , . In a word, the Arabic version taken from the Septuagint, plainly authorizes this reading of the Septuagint, and without the negative; and it is fully confirmed by MSS. Pachom. and 1. D. II., which have both of them , without the negative; which makes an excellent sense, and, I think, gives us the true reading of the Hebrew text; ak nichlemu shadmoth cheshbon . They frequently render the verb nichlam by . And nichlemu answers perfectly well to umlal , the parallel word in the next line. The MSS. vary in expressing the word nechaim , which gives no tolerable sense in this place; one reads nochaim ; two others bechaim ; in another the caph is upon a rasure of two letters; and the Vulgate instead of it reads mecotham , plagas suas . - L.

For the men of Kirhares ye shall make a moan. For the fields of Heshbon are put to shame. This is Bp. Lowth' s sense of the passage.

Her branches are stretched out "Her branches extended themselves" - For nitteshu , a MS. has niggeshu ; which may perhaps be right. Compare Jeremiah 48:32, which has in this part of the sentence the synonymous word nagau .

The meaning of this verse is, that the wines of Sibmah and Heshbon were greatly celebrated, and in high repute with all the great men and princes of that and the neighboring countries; who indulged themselves even to intemperance in the use of them. So that their vines were so much in request as not only to be propagated all over the country of Moab to the sea of Sodom, but to have scions of them sent even beyond the sea into foreign countries.

halemu , knocked down, demolished; that is overpowered, intoxicated. The drunkards of Ephraim are called by the prophet, Isaiah 28:1, halumey yayin , drinkers of wine. See Schultens on Proverbs 23:25. Gratius, speaking of the Mareotic wine, says of it,

Pharios quae fregit noxia reges . Cyneg. 312.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 16:8:

Joshua 13:19
Jeremiah 48:1
Jeremiah 48:32
Lamentations 5:22
Ezekiel 38:17

 

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