Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 16:9

9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah : I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits, and for thy harvest is fallen .

So the sence is, I will bewail Sibmab as I did bewail Iazer, which, they say, was destroyed before. Sibmah: Or, the weeping of Iazer might be a Proverbial Expression; for it is used also Ier. 48. 32▪ like that of the mourning of Hadadrimmon, Zech. 12. 11. though the Reason of it be now unknown, as it is in many other Proverbs. The Words are by others rendred, and that more agreeably to the Hebrew Text, I will bewail with weeping (which is an usual Hebraism for, I will bitterly bewail) Iazer, and (which Particle is oft understood) the vine of Sibmah. But our Translation seems to be justified by the parallel Place, Ier. 48. 32. where it is, O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Iazer.

Those joyful Shouts and Acclamations which were customary in the time of Harvest and Vintage, Isa. 9. 3. Ier. 25. 30. shall cease, because thy Land shall be wasted, and thy People destroyed. Or, as it is in the Margin, the shout or alarm is fallen upon thy summer-fruits and thy harvest, in stead of that joyful Shout which was then used, to which he here alludes. Which seems to be the truer Translation, not onely because this Hebrew Word is elsewhere used concerning the shout of an Enemy falling upon a People, as Ier. 25. 30. & 51. 14. but especially by considering the parallel Place, Ier. 48. 32. where, for the shout is fallen, it is, the spoiler is fallen upon, &c. If it be objected, That the next Verse speaks of the ceasing of their joyful Shouts, and that this Hebrew Word is there used for vintage-shouting, which at first made me incline to the former Interpretation; that seems to be fully answered from Ier. 48. 33. which speaks likewise of the ceasing of their Joy and joyful Shouts, but withal adds, in the close of the Verse, what may end this Controversie, their shouting shall be no shouting; They shall indeed have a Shouting, but not such an one as they used to have, a joyful Shouting of their own People, but an insulting Shout of their Enemies.

Marginal references: Or, the alarm is fallen upon, &c.