Isaiah 16:8
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.
Note Or and had gone as far as the sea; that is, probably the Dead Sea
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
Note stretched…: or, plucked up
For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the fields
- Isaiah 15:4; Isaiah 24:7; 2 Samuel 1:21
- the vine
- Isaiah 16:9; Numbers 32:38
- Shibmah
- Joshua 13:19
- the lords
- Isaiah 10:7; Jeremiah 27:6, 7
- Jazer
- Numbers 32:3; Joshua 13:25