Isaiah 16:10
8 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.
9 So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
11 Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
12 When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
- KJV
- And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
- WEB
- Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
- ASV
- And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
- DARBY
- And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry [of the winepress] to cease.
- BLB
- And gladness and rejoicing are gathered up from the field of planting, and in the vineyards there is no singing, and no shouting, [and] the wine in the presses, the treader does not tread; their shouting I have made cease.
- ÅB
- Og glede og fryd tas bort fra frukthavene, og i vingårdene lyder ingen frydesang, intet jubelrop; ingen treder vin i persekarene; frydeskriket[^4] gjør jeg ende på.
- OTB
- Glede og fryd er fjernet fra frukthagene; i vingårdene er det ingen sang eller jubelrop; ingen tråkker ut vin i pressene, for jeg har stilnet ropene.
- B1930
- Og glede og fryd tas bort fra frukthavene, og i vingårdene lyder ingen frydesang, intet jubelrop; ingen treder vin i persekarene; frydeskriket gjør jeg ende på. / < over en fruktbar høst.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 48:33
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
Read in contextAmos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Read in contextAmos 5:17
There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
Read in contextJudges 9:27
And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:17–18
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
Read in contextIsaiah 24:7–9
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Read in contextJob 24:11
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:10
In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
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