In Isaiah, chapter fifteen, verse five, “My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, a heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.” God’s own heart cried out in compassion for the Moabite victims in their terrible suffering, as in verse nine. Isaiah felt the same compassion as in chapter twenty-one, verses two through four, and chapter twenty-two, verse four, respectively.
In like manner, we should feel compassion and pity for those who destroy themselves by pursuing sin and evil, as Jesus wept over the chosen nation, as in Luke nineteen verse forty-one, ” And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it.” Jesus already knew that the people and the leaders would ultimately reject the Messiah, wept in pity for the people who would soon suffer terrible judgment. Jesus, just as God did, His Father, reveals not only His own feelings, but also God’s broken heart over the lostness of the human race and their refusal to repent and accept salvation, as in Mark eleven, verse nine.
There are people in the world that remind us as believers, like the Moabites, who reject the Messiah and live according to how they should realize that judgment in the end is coming for everyone who does not accept Him. The crowd in Mark eleven, verse nine, believed the Messiah came for their political purposes. They failed to understand in the end the purpose that Jesus expressed regarding His coming into the world. Later, the crowd shouted “Crucify Him” when they saw He was not the Messiah they wanted, as in Mark fifteen, verse thirteen.