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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 48:14-47

The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it, but to affect us with the calamitous state of human life, which is liable to such lamentable occurrences, and with the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:26

Make ye him drunken ,.... Not with wine, but with the cup of divine wrath; with the vengeance of God; with sore judgments, afflictions, and calamities; give him his fill of them, till he is quite intoxicated with them, and has lost his senses, and is brought to madness and distraction, and reels, and staggers, and falls to the ground, like a drunken man; and his state and kingdom is quite ruined: this is said to the enemies of Moab, the king of Babylon and his army: for he magnified ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:27

For was not Israel a derision unto thee ?.... In the time of his calamity, when the ten tribes were carried captive by the Assyrians some years ago; and of late the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin by the Chaldeans; the Moabites rejoiced at this, which they ought not to have done, upon the common principles of humanity; and especially since they were not only neighbours, but akin; and therefore, according to the law of retaliation, it was but just that they should be had in derision... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:28

O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock ,.... Signifying hereby that they would not be in safety in their strongest and most fortified cities, which would be besieged by the enemy, and taken; and therefore are advised to leave them, and flee to the rocks and mountains, that if possible they might be safe there: and be like the dove, that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth ; which, for fear of birds of prey, makes her nest in the side of a hole, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard the pride of Moab ,.... Israel, and all the nations round about, had heard of this, and seen or heard of many instances of it; the thing was notorious; according to Kimchi, it is the prophet that here speaks in the name of the nations; but it seems best to understand it of the Lord himself, as appears from the Jeremiah 48:30 ; and who here speaks in the plural number, because of the plurality of persons in the Godhead; as he afterwards does in the singular number, to denote... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:30

I know his wrath, saith the Lord ,.... Against the Jews, and other nations; what he has threatened to do unto them, and would do if not restrained: but it shall not be so ; as he has devised in his mind, and threatened in his wrath; all his swelling thoughts and big words shall come to nothing: his lies shall not so effect it ; it shall not be according to his words; they will prove lies, and of no effect. Kimchi interprets it of the sons of Moab, who shall not be able to do... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:31

Therefore will I howl for Moab ,.... The prophet, being as a man affected with the miseries of a people very wicked, and so deserving of them; though indeed by this he does not so much design to express the affections of his own heart, as to show what reason the Moabites would have to howl for the calamities of their country; for, as Kimchi observes, the prophet here speaks in the person of the people of Moab; see Isaiah 16:7 ; and I will cry out for all Moab ; the whole country of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:32

O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer ,.... Sibmah was a city in the land of Moab abounding with vines, but now should be destroyed; and Jazer another city in the same country, which was destroyed before the other; and therefore its destruction should be lamented and wept over, as that had been: or "from", or "after the weeping of Jazer" F8 מבכי "a fletu", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Schmidt. ; when that is over, or from thence will I go in course as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:33

And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field ,.... Or, from Carmel F11 מכרמל "de Carmelo", V. L. "de Charmel", Montanus; "ex Carmelo", Schmidt. ; not Mount Carmel in the land of Israel; for the prophecy is of Moab; though that reached to Sibmah; but here it signifies any fruitful place, like Carmel, where were good pasturage, corn, and fruit bearing trees, which produced great plenty of good things, and caused joy to the owners of them: but now all being destroyed by the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:34

From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh ,.... Two cities in the land of Moab; of which see Isaiah 15:4 . Heshbon being destroyed, a cry was made by the inhabitants of it, which either reached from thence to Elealeh; or the destruction being carried on to that city, the cry was continued there: and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice ; another city of Moab; see Isaiah 15:4 ; which also was laid waste, and where the Moabites uttered their voice of lamentation on... read more

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