Isaiah 16:7

Moab howl. Had Moab given heed to the counsel of the Lord, its throne would have been established in righteousness and mercy, but since it refused, the result would be woe and destruction. The whole nation would wail in agony at the arrival of the hour of doom.

The foundations. Literally, “raisin cakes.” In Hosea 3:1 the same word is translated “flagons of wine” (see on 2 Sam. 6:19; S. of Sol. 2:5). Perhaps pressed cakes of raisins had been one of the chief products of Kir-hareseth, and the people here bemoan the loss of their chief means of livelihood.