Jeremiah 48:37

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 48:37

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped ,.... Men, in times of mourning, used to pluck off the hairs of their head till they made them bald, and shaved their beards; which, as Kimchi says, were the glory of their faces; see Isaiah 15:2 ; upon all the hands shall be cuttings : it was usual with the Heathens to make incisions in the several parts of their bodies, particularly in their hands and arms, with their nails, or with knives, in token of mourning; which are... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:37

For every head shall be bald - These, as we have seen before, were signs of the deepest distress and desolation. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:37

Verse 37 The Prophet describes at large a very great mourning. They were wont in great sorrow to pull off their hair, to shave their beard, and to put on sackcloth, or to gird it round their loins, and also to cut their hands with a knife or with their nails. As these things were signs of grief; Jeremiah puts them all together, in order to show that the calamity of Moab would not be common, but what would cause to the whole people extreme lamentation. They shall make bald, he says, their heads,... 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 48:36-42

The description of Moab's lamentations continued. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:37-38

(first part).—Based on Isaiah 15:2 (latter part), 3 (first part). On the primitive Arabic, Egyptian, and Hebrew custom of cutting off the hair, see on Jeremiah 16:6 , and comp. Herod; 2.36. Clipped . The difference from the word in Isaiah is so slight that it may easily have arisen from a copyist. The meaning is virtually the same. Cuttings . So of Philistia ( Jeremiah 47:5 ); see on Jeremiah 16:6 . read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 48:37

Cuttings - Compare Jeremiah 16:6, and marginal references. 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

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