Ibn Ezra on Isaiah

בליל In the night of. ליל is in the construct state. It is an elliptical expression for in the night of such and such a day of the week. מואב In Moab. במואב=מואב; the preposition ב is omitted. נדמה Was destroyed. Comp. ודמיתי and I shall destroy (Hos. 4:5). Kir. Name of a province of Moab; comp. Am. 9:7

הבית The inhabitant of Bayith. יושב הבית=הבית; Bayith is a place in Moab. To the high places. In order to worship the idols. Their heads. The heads of the Moabites. גרועה A cutting. It is a noun, (not a participle); comp. חבלתו חוב his pledge for the debt חבלתו בחוב=חבלתו חוב, or by extending the force of the preposition before בל ראשיו, and referring it also to כל זקן. (Ez. 18:7). The preposition ב on before כל ראשיו governs also .כל זקן Comp. Gen. 49:25.

In their streets. In the streets of the Moabites. גגותיה Her roofs. The roofs of the country. ייליל Shall howl. Comp. ייטיב he will do good (Job 24:31); in both cases the sounding of the radical is an anomaly.

נפשו ירעה לו His soul shall cry out unto him. The soul of Moab shall cry out unto him, or the soul of every one of the armed soldiers will shout and say.

למואב For Moab. בריחיה ונו׳ Her bars, etc. The bars of the country cry, etc.; comp. Howl, O gate (14:31); or Her bars have been brought to Egypt, whence the king of Assyria was coming, or to Zoar near Sodom; in either case ענלת שלישיה a heifer of three years oldis in apposition to Zoar; or בריחיה being equivalent to בורחיה —not to ברוחיה for how could a participle passive be formed of a neuter verb!—her fugitive men came to Zoar. יעערו They shall raise up. The second ע is not radical, but the reduplication of the radical ע. The form is irregular.

Nimrim. Name of a place. משמות Desolation. It is a noun; for were it participle Hiphil of a verb (שמם) ע״ע, the ש would have Hirek (מְשִׁמּוֹת)

יתרה Abundance. A noun. עשה He hath gotten. Comp. Deut. 8:17. ופקדתם And that which they have laid up. Comp. פקדון that which hath been delivered him to keep (Lev. 5:23).—They will carry their treasures to the willows of the brook, to hide them there, or better they will carry away their treasures by boats on a certain river in their land, which flows between willows; that is, they will carry their property to another place, where it may be kept for them.

עד Unto. To be repeated before באר אלים unto Beer Elim.

דם Blood. The blood of the slain of Moab. נוספות Additional evils. Supply רעות evils; comp. מלות עזות=עזות impertinent words (Prov. 18:23). כי אשית For I will bring. To be repeated before לפלטת: for I will bring against the remnant of Moab a lion, namely the king of Assyria.