John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee ,.... A proverbial expression, showing, that if they escaped one danger, or sore judgment, they should fall into another and greater: the words seem to be taken from Isaiah 24:17 ; See Gill on Isaiah 24:17 ; O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord ; what in the prophecy of Isaiah is said of the inhabitants of the earth in general, is here applied to the inhabitants of Moab in particular. read more
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