“You people of Sibmah, rich in vineyards, I will weep for you even more than I did for Jazer. Your spreading vines once reached as far as the Dead Sea, but the destroyer has stripped you bare! He has harvested your grapes and summer fruits.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Or, “More than the weeping of Jazer” over its ruined vineyards “will I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah.” Compare the marginal refe…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

O vine of Sibmah. —Here again we have an echo of Isaiah 16:9. Sibmah appears in Joshua 13:19 as assigned to the Reubenite…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Here the Prophet shows more clearly what he had said generally before, that Sibmah would weep for her vines, after having wept for Jazer. These wer…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of
Jazer
Sibmah was a city in …