Verse 39
They shall howl, saying , how is it broken down ?.... Or, "how is it broken" or "thrown into consternation F16 איך חתה "quomodo consternata est", Piscator, Schmidt. ? they howl"; that is, they howl out these words, or, while they are howling, say, how is Kirheres or Moab broken all to pieces; their strength, power, and glory; their cities, and their mighty men; and are in the utmost fright and confusion? Jarchi takes it to be an imperative, and paraphrases it,
"howl ye over her F17 הילילו "ululate", Munster, Piscator; "ejulate", Junius & Tremellius. , and say, how is it broken!'
Kimchi says it may be taken either as in the past or in the imperative;
how hath Moab turned the back with shame ? not being able to look their enemies in the face, but obliged to flee before them;
so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him ; a derision to some, to their enemies, as Israel had been to them, and so they are paid in their own coin; and a consternation to others, their friends, who would fear sharing the same fate, at the hands of the Chaldeans.
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