Isaiah 16:9

With the weeping "As with the weeping" - For bibechi , a MS. reads bechi . In Jeremiah 48:32, it is mibbechi . The Septuagint read kibeki , as with weeping, which I follow.

For thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen "And upon thy vintage the destroyer hath fallen" - veal ketsirech heidad naphal . In these few words there are two great mistakes, which the text of Jeremiah 48:32 rectifies. For ketsirech , it has betsirech ; and for heidad , shoded ; both which corrections the Chaldee in this place confirms. As to the first,

"Hesebon and Eleale, and

The flowery dale of Sibmah, clad with vines,"

were never celebrated for their harvests; it was the vintage that suffered by the irruption of the enemy; and so read the Septuagint and Syriac. heidad is the noisy acclamation of the treaders of the grapes. And see what sense this makes in the literal rendering of the Vulgate: super messem tuam vox calcantium irruit , "upon thy harvest the voice of the treaders rushes." The reading in Jeremiah 48:32 is certainly right, shoded naphal , "the destroyer hath fallen." The shout of the treaders does not come in till the next verse; in which the text of Isaiah in its turn mends that of Jeremiah 48:33, where instead of the first heidad , "the shout," we ought undoubtedly to read, as here, haddorech , "the treader."