エレミヤ書 48:1-10 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

1 . Jeremiah 48:29-38 recur in Isaiah 16:6-10 ; Isaiah 15:4 , Isaiah 15:5 , Isaiah 15:6 ; Isaiah 16:12 , Isaiah 16:11 ; Isaiah 15:2 , Isaiah 15:3 ; not, indeed, without many peculiarities, and those peculiarities are so striking, and so little in harmony with Jeremiah's usual mode of using his predecessor's writings, that some have held that verses 29-38 were inserted by one of Jeremiah's readers. 2 . Verses 43, 44 so closely resemble Isaiah 24:17 , Isaiah 24:18 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

The judgment of Moab. As the prophet's "eye in a fine frenzy rolling" sees the flood of the Chaldean invasion sweeping over one after another of the nations, his words flash out in pictures full of energy and fire. If this world's calamities are thus terrible, how shall the awful realities of eternity be contemplated? Why should some of us be so shocked at the strong language of preachers? Strange and fanatical as it may appear, the fury of a Knox is more consonant with much of life and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:2

There shall be no more praise of Moab; rather, Moab's glory (or, glorying ) is no more (comp. Jeremiah 48:29 ). In Heshbon they have devised evil , etc. There is a word play in the Hebrew, which may be reproduced thus: "In Plot-house they plot evil against it" (so J. F. Smith's Ewald). Against it (literally, her ) means "against Moab." Heshbon was at the time an Ammonitish town (it had in days gone by been Amoritish, Numbers 21:26 ); see Jeremiah 49:3 ; but was on the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:2

The departed praise of Moab. I. NOT FOR WANT OF DISPOSITION TO PRAISE . If the things had still remained which people had been in the habit of praising, they would have gone on praising. But the God of righteousness takes them away, and then there is necessary silence. Instead of praise there is humiliation, astonishment at a change so complete, but no insight into the hollowness and instability of that which had been praised. If it had all come back again, it would have been... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:3

Horonaim . This Moabite town was probably on the borders of Edom; hence, perhaps, "Sanballat the Horonite." read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:4

Moab is destroyed. The mention of Moab in the midst of towns is certainly surprising. We should expect Ar-Moab. Her little ones . The received text, as it stands, is untranslatable, and our choice lies between the correction suggested by the vowel points, and the reading of the Septuagint and a few of the extant Hebrew manuscripts, "unto Zoar." In favour of the latter, which is adopted by Ewald and Graf, it may he urged that Zoar and Horenaim are mentioned together, not only in Jeremiah... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:5

For in the going up of Luhith, etc. The verse is substantially taken from Isaiah ( Isaiah 15:5 ), but with variations peculiar to this chapter. The most peculiar of these is that in the first verse half, which is literally, weeping goeth up (not, shall go up ) with weeping , which is explained by Dr. Payne Smith to mean "one set of weeping fugitives pressing close upon another." To the present commentator (as also to Delitzsch—see his note on Isaiah 15:5 ) there seems no reasonable... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives; literally, your souls . The prophet's human feeling prompts him to this counsel; but he knows full well that a life of abject misery is the utmost that can be hoped for. And be like the heath in the wilderness; literally, and ( your souls ) shall be like destitute ones in the wilderness . Imagine the ease of one who has been robbed of everything, and left alone in the desert; not less miserable is that of the Moabite fugitives. The word rendered "the heath" (... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:6

The heath in the wilderness. Such will the sinner be; for, like it, he will be: 1 . Barren. No rich, strength-sustaining fruit does the heath bear. A mere hard berry. The camel and the ass may browse thereupon, but it is no food for man. "Can men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" And thus barren of good is the sinner. 2 . Unlovely. There is no form nor beauty about the heath; a stunted, misshapen shrub. Its wood can be used for no manufacture. It is fit only to be... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:7

In thy works; i.e. either "in thy evil deeds" (comp. Isaiah 28:15 ) or "in thy idols" (frequently called "the work of men's hands," e.g. Deuteronomy 4:28 , and sometimes simply "works," e.g. Isaiah 41:29 ; Isaiah 57:12 ; comp. Isaiah 1:31 ). Chemoah . In Numbers 21:29 Moab is called "people of Chemosh," the patron-god being the king and lord of his people. In accordance with the strictly localizing theory of the nature of deity, current among primitive nations, Chemosh is... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:7

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