Jeremiah 48:31 WEB

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 48:31

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 Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:31

Verse 31 Some think the last word to be a proper name, though, according to etymology, it is “the city of potsherd.” They therefore give this rendering, “the strong city.” But Isaiah calls it “Kir-hareseth,” קיר-הרשת; he extends the word by adding a syllable to it; but the word, however, is the same. Then he says, I will think of the men of Kir-cheres The word הגה,ege, is properly to complain, to whisper, to murmur; and hence some render the words not improperly, “I will mutter to the men of... 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 48:31

Based upon Isaiah 16:7 . Therefore . Moab cannot escape the catastrophe, for his moral basis is utterly insecure. "Therefore," etc. Will I howl. It is at first sight strange that the prophet should speak thus sympathetically after the strong language in verse 26. But the fact is that an inspired prophet has, as it were, a double personality. Sometimes his human feelings seem quite lost in the consciousness of his message; sometimes (and especially in Jeremiah) the natural, emotional life... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 48:31

Mine heart ... - Rather, “there shall be mourning for” etc. 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 48:31-33

Jeremiah 48:31-33. Therefore will I howl for Moab See note on Isaiah 15:5. I will cry out for all Moab The whole country of Moab: the phrase is the same with whole Palestina, Isaiah 14:31. For the men of Kirheres See note on Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 16:11. O vine of Sibmah The expressions here denote the destruction of the fruitful vineyards of Sibmah; the loss of which the neighbouring places of Jazer would have reason to lament. Thy plants are gone over the sea The vineyards of Sibmah... read more

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:31

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 48:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 48:31

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 48:31-33

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