Geneva Bible Notes (1560): Isaiah 15

^{1 a} Read, {Chap13,1}.

^{1 b} The chief citie, whereby the whole countrey was ment.

^{1 !} A prophecie against Moab.

^{2 c} The Moabites shal flee to their idoles for succour, but it shalbe to late.

^{2 d} Which were cities of Moab.

^{2 e} For as in the West partes the people vsed to let their heere growe long, when they mourned, so in the East partes they cut it of.

^{5 f} The Prophet speaketh this in the persone of the Moadbites, or as one that felt, the great judgement of God that shulde come vpon them.

^{5 g} Meaning, that it was a citie that euer liued in pleasure, and neuer flet sorowe.

^{5 h} He describeth the miserable dissipation, and flight of the Moabites.

^{7 i} To hid them selves, & their goods there.

^{9 i} So that by no meanes they shulde escape the hand of God: thus wil God punish the enemies of his Church.

^{9 k} Of them that are slaine.