Jeremiah 48:29, Jeremiah 48:30 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:29-30

These verses are an expansion of Isaiah 16:6 . The boastfulness of Moab seems to have much impressed its Israelitish neighbours (comp. Isaiah 16:14 , 27). It has been thought to be illustrated by the inscription on the Moabite Stone; but we must remember that all national monuments of this sort have a tendency to exaggeration. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 48:29-39

Jeremiah 48:29 ; Jeremiah 48:39. We have heard the pride of Moab The several synonymous terms made use of in this verse are meant to express the great pride and insolence of Moab. Though some of these terms are not found in the parallel passage, (Isaiah 16:6,) yet in the main they agree therewith; and “while they describe the overweening pride and haughtiness of Moab, and the intemperance of his rage, they intimate the small pretensions he had for such high assuming, either in respect of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

A message concerning Moab (48:1-47)Moab was one nation that tried to form an alliance with Judah against Babylon (see 27:1-3). Moab will now suffer Babylon’s anger. Jeremiah pictures the scene: the land devastated, fortresses smashed, cities destroyed, people crying out in distress, refugees fleeing from the invading armies (48:1-6).Chemosh, Moab’s national god, cannot save the nation. Rather, it will be taken into captivity along with Moab’s civil and religious leaders. The towns of Moab will... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 48:29

pride = arrogance. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia : six expressions, for the sake of emphasis. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:29

DIRGE OVER A DESOLATE LAND"We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart. I know his wrath, saith Jehovah, that it is naught; his boastings have wrought nothing. Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kirheres shall they mourn. With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 48:29

29. pride— (Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 16:7). Moab was the trumpeter of his own fame. Jeremiah adds "loftiness and arrogancy" to Isaiah's picture, so that Moab had not only not been bettered by the chastisement previously endured as foretold by Isaiah, but had even become worse; so that his guilt, and therefore his sentence of punishment, are increased now. Six times Moab's pride (or the synonyms) are mentioned, to show the exceeding hatefulness of his sin. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 48:29

The sins of Moab were well-known: haughtiness, pride, arrogance, and self-exaltation."The sin of pride is one of the principal reasons for Moab’s downfall. Had she boasted in the righteous deeds of the Lord (cf. Psalms 20:7; Psalms 34:2; Jeremiah 9:24) she would have prospered. The Christian must avoid all false pride (cf. Mark 7:22; Romans 1:30; James 3:5, etc.), and must boast instead in God’s redemptive work in Christ (1 Corinthians 1:29 f.; Galatians 6:14, etc.), since every human boast has... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 48:29-39

4. The pride of Moab 48:29-39Moab’s pride would finally come to an end. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:1-47

Against MoabMoab, in recompense for its pride and security, and for its triumphing over Israel in the day of her calamity, shall itself be laid waste and taken captive: cp. the ’burden of Moab ’in Isaiah 15, 16.1. Nebo] not the mountain, but the Reubenite town (Numbers 32:38), which had been annexed by Mesha, king of Moab (about 895 b.c.), according to the ’Moabite Stone ’records. Several places mentioned in this chapter have not been certainly identified. 2. Heshbon] an Ammonite town on the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 48:29

(29) We have heard the pride of Moab . . .—It will be seen that here and in the next verse the very words of Isaiah (Isaiah 16:6) are reproduced. The prophet seems to find a pleasure in going back to the old words as showing that the fault of which he spoke was inveterate, and had shown itself incurable. It is, however, a free reproduction, and Jeremiah, instead of making the whole utterance that of the Jews, inserts the words, “I know his wrath, saith the Lord,” which come as an oracle from... read more