Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 15:6
6. For—the cause of their flight southwards (2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 3:25). "For" the northern regions and even the city Nimrim (the very name of which means "limpid waters," in Gilead near Jordan) are without water or herbage. read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 15:5-7
Isaiah 15:5-7. My heart shall cry out for Moab— Hitherto the prophet had set forth the lamentation of the Moabites; but seeing these future evils as it were present to his own mind, he compassionates their griefs, and declares his own participation of their sorrows: the meaning of the next clause is, "His fugitives wander even unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old;" that is to say, sending forth their cries by weeping and lamenting, like a heifer, &c." Three years old is mentioned only to... read more