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Isaiah 16:10
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God pronounces judgment over Moab, extending the harvest lament begun for Jazer, Sibmah, Heshbon, and Elealeh. The declaration follows the silence of autumn shouts and directly precedes the personal mourning over Kir-heres.
The words — וְנֶאֱסַף (ve.ne'e.Saf, "and it will be removed") governs שִׂמְחָה (sim.Chah, "gladness") and גִּיל (Gil, "rejoicing") as they depart הַכַּרְמֶל (ha.kar.Mel, "the orchard") and the vineyards. לֹא (lo', "not") precedes יְרֻנָּן (ye.ru.Nan, "anything will be sung"), confirming the absolute halt of harvest music and grape-treading.
The thread — Jeremiah 48:33 repeats the removal of joy and gladness from Moab's orchards and fields, noting the stopped flow of wine. Judges 9:27 contrasts this enforced silence with the customary gathering and treading of grapes for festival, while Amos 5:11 ties the loss of harvest joy to the extortion of grain from the poor.
Why it lands — The text records the concrete cessation of agricultural labor and communal celebration as a direct act of divine judgment. It requires the reader to confront how political and spiritual rupture physically dismantles the rhythms of daily survival.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 48:33 Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
- Judges 9:27 And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
- Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 5:17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.
- Job 24:11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
- Isaiah 24:7 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Isaiah 32:10 In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
- Habakkuk 3:17 Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Zephaniah 1:13 Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.