Jeremiah 48:36-38 NIV

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 48:36

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes ,.... That are sounded on mournful occasions, as at funerals, and the like; see Matthew 9:23 . This the prophet said, as Kimchi observes, in the person of the people, the inhabitants of Moab; whose hearts would yearn and sound for the calamities of their country like the doleful sound of minstrels. So the Targum, "therefore the Moabites shall sound in their hearts like a harp:' and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:38

There shall be lamentation generally ,.... Or, "all of it is mourning" F14 כלה מספד "totus luctus (est) vel omnia luctus (sunt)", Schmidt; "totus erit planctus", Junius & Tremellius; "per omnia erit planctus", Piscator. ; the whole country of Moab is in mourning; or all is full of mourning; all persons, places, and things, express nothing but mourning; go where you will, it is to be seen: upon all the house tops of Moab, and in the streets thereof ; the mourning, as it... 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 48:36

Verse 36 Here the Prophet, as it has been before stated, does not mourn the calamity of the people of Moab, but assumes the character of others, so that the event might appear more evident, it being set as it were before our eyes; for as we have said, the wealth of the Moabites was so great at that time, that it dazzled the eyes of all. It was then difficult for the faithful to form an idea of this vengeance of God, therefore the Prophet transfers to himself the feelings of others, and relates... 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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:38

Verse 38 The Prophet at the beginning of the verse continues the same subject, that the Moabites would weep and lament throughout all their houses and in all their streets The reason is added in the second clause, because God would bring a severe judgment on that nation. By saying that there would be lamentation on all the roofs, he refers to what was customary at that time, for they had their walks on the roofs or tops of their houses. Then he says, that the Moabites, in order to be more seen... 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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:37

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:38

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:36

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 48:38

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 48:1-47

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