Jeremiah 48:30 KJV

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 48:30

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 Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:30

Verse 30 This verse is variously explained, at least the second clause. Some render it, “His indignation, and not what is right;” then they add by itself, “his lies;” and lastly, “they have not done rightly,” or as others, “they will not do anything fixed,” which is more suitable, and comes near to the rendering which I have given. But I will not here discuss other interpretations, or try at large to disprove-them, but it is sufficient for us to understand the real meaning of the Prophet. In... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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 48:26-35

And what is Moab's crime? At an earlier point the prophet said that it was the callousness produced by long prosperity ( Jeremiah 48:11 ); but here another sin is mentioned—Moab's haughty contempt of Jehovah. "For this it deserves that its contempt should be thrown back upon itself, by its being made, like a drunken man, the scorn of all" (Ewald). The figure is, no doubt, a coarse one, but not unnatural in the oratory (we must put aside inspiration, which leaves the forms of speech... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:30

But it shall not be so, etc. This is a case in which the accentuation must most decidedly be deviated from; it implies a faulty view of the word rendered in the Authorized Version, "his lies." But the rendering of our version is neither in itself tenable nor is it that intended by the accentuation. The rendering suggested by the latter is "his praters" ( i.e. soothsayers), as the word, no doubt, must be taken in Jeremiah 1:1-19 :36; Isaiah 44:25 . But it is much more natural to render... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 48:30

But it shall not be so - Most commentators translate, “I know, saith Jehovah, his arrogancy, and the emptiness of his boastings; they have worked emptiness.” 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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:26-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:29-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 48:30

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

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