Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"The waters of Dimon will be full of blood"
Text: Isaiah 15:9
THE WEALTH OF THE MOABITES
Moab was a wealthy country. The good pasture lands enabled them to become a well-settled nation.
“Therefore the abundance they have gained,
And what they have laid up,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,
Its wailing to Eglaim
And its wailing to Beer Elim.
For the waters of Dimon will be full of blood;
Because I will bring more upon Dimon,
Lions upon him who escapes from Moab,
And on the remnant of the land.”
Isaiah 15:7-9
1. The abundance of wealth.
a) Moab was greatly impoverished because of the war.
b) All the “abundance” they had was reduced to whatever they could carry away.
c) The brook of the willows refers to a wadi that was on the borders of Moab.
d) Those who survived were fleeing Moab in every direction available.
2. The borders of Moab.
a) Eglaim and Beer Elim.
b) These were on the borders of Israel.
c) Both countries often went to war over disputed border cities.
d) Moab took some cities belonging to Israel and made them their own.
e) But in these border towns, great wailing and lamentation were heard.
3. The waters of Dimon.
a) This is a reference to a rivulet that feeds the River Arnon.
b) But the massacre of Moab was so bad that the waters became bloody.
c) There was no escape for Moab for this was judgment time.
4. Lions
a) Wild animals like lions would be free to roam the land.
b) The land would now be dominated by wildlife.
c) Those who manage to flee from the war would have to face wild animals.
d) Lions would maul and kill the remnant in the land of Moab.
e) Moab, the enemy of Israel would be devasted.
The LORD Himself had determined the destruction of the Moabites.