Isaiah 16:9
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.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 16:8 describes the languishing vines of Sibmah struck down—this directly prompts the weeping in verse 9.
Isaiah 9:3 describes joyful harvest shouts, while Isaiah 16:9 mourns that those shouts have ceased — a deliberate contrast.
Isaiah 15:4 also laments Moab's cry from Heshbon and Elealeh, the same cities and theme of mourning.
Isaiah 21:3 expresses the prophet's anguish over Babylon—a similar emotional response to judgment.
Jeremiah 48:32-34 directly echoes this lament over Moab's vines of Sibmah, with identical place names and imagery.
In Numbers 32:3, Jazer and Sibmah are named among the fertile lands east of the Jordan — the exact region mourned here.
Numbers 21:25 records Israel taking Heshbon, a city mentioned in Isaiah 16:9's lament over Moab.
Numbers 21:32 mentions Jazer, the same city lamented in Isaiah 16:9 for its vines.
Jeremiah 9:1 wishes for a fountain of tears for his people—echoes the weeping for Moab here.
Ezekiel 27:31 depicts mourning over Tyre with weeping and bitter soul, similar to the prophet's tears for Moab here.
Ezekiel 32:18 commands a wailing lament over Egypt, paralleling the weeping over Moab's destruction in this verse.
Judges 9:27 depicts harvest celebration with shouting at vineyards; here the shouts have fallen silent.