O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
Be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. Doves often have their nests in "the sides" of caverns. No longer shalt thou have cities to shelter thee: thou shalt have to flee for shelter to caves and deserts (Psalms 55:6; ).
Verse Jeremiah 48:28. _DWELL IN THE ROCK_] Go to the most inaccessible places in the mountains. _THE HOLE'S MOUTH._] And into the most secret eaves and holes of the earth....
DWELL IN THE ROCK - See Jeremiah 4:29. The sole chance of escape is refuge in inaccessible fastnesses. IN THE SIDES ... - On the further side “of the mouth of the pit.” The wild rock pigeon invariabl...
CHAPTER 48 Concerning Moab _ 1. The overthrow of Moab (Jeremiah 48:1) _ 2. The humiliation of Moab (Jeremiah 48:11) 3. Reaping what they sowed (Jeremiah 48:20) 4. Destroyed o
Enumeration of the cities which are to suffer (Jeremiah 48:20). The strength of Moab is destroyed, and Moab is become drunken (with the cup of Yahweh, Jeremiah 25:15), an object of present derision, a...
See introd. summary to the ch....
_dwell in the rock_ See on Jeremiah 4:29. _in the sides of the hole's mouth_ The expression is peculiar and probably corrupt, but the figure is plain. See Tristram, _Nat. Hist. of the Bible_, p. 215,...
IN THE SIDES OF THE HOLE'S MOUTH— _By the sides of the pit's mouth:_ that is, on the edge of the precipice. The mouth of the pit is the same as the brink of destruction; the pit or grave yawning wide,...
IV. THE ORACLE AGAINST MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 The Moabites occupied the region east of the Dead Sea and for the most part south of the river Arnon. The Arnon flows through a steep, twisting gorge in th...
D. Complete Degradation Jeremiah 48:18-28 TRANSLATION (18) Go down from your glory! Sit in thirst, O delicate daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has gone up against you; he will destroy you...
48:28 mouth. (e-28) See Isaiah 16:6-10 ....
AGAINST MOAB Moab, in recompense for its pride and security, and for its triumphing over Israel in the day of her calamity, shall itself be laid waste and taken captive: cp. the 'burden of Moab 'in I...
O YE THAT DWELL IN MOAB... — The general thought is the same as in Jeremiah 48:6; Jeremiah 48:9, but is more vivid as being more specific. The Moabites are to leave their cities and take refuge in the...
עִזְב֤וּ עָרִים֙ וְ שִׁכְנ֣וּ בַּ † סֶּ֔לַע...
CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1 "Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah."- Jeremiah 48:42 "Chemosh said to me, Go, take Nebo against Israeland...
The word of the Lord concerning Moab is a judgment, which nevertheless closes with a gleam of hope. The judgment is described, first, from the standpoint of the scourge. The widespread extent of it is...
_Place. Seek for shelter in the caverns and highest mountains. (Haydock)_...
It would swell our Commentary to a length indeed, to enter minutely into the several branches of the visitations here set forth. Indeed it would only when done, tend to confirm what hardly needs furth...
Here Jeremiah denounces exile on the Moabites; as though he had said, that such would be the desolation of their land, that they would be forced as wanderers to flee here and there. That he bids them...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
O YE THAT DWELL IN MOAB, LEAVE THE CITIES, AND DWELL IN THE ROCK,.... Signifying hereby that they would not be in safety in their strongest and most fortified cities, which would be besieged by the en...
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. Ver. 28. _And be like the dove._] That is glad to creep...
_Ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities_ The walls of which will not be sufficient to defend you from the sword of the enemy. _And dwell in the rock_ Hide yourselves in the rocks and caverns of your...
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, dwellings which no longer offered a sufficient shelter, AND DWELL IN THE ROCK, in caves of inaccessible mountain fastnesses, AND BE LIKE THE DOVE THAT MAKETH...
Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...
14-47. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In r...
Still the prophet speaks of the Moabites as a people whose armies were routed, and calls to them to leave their houses in cities, not promising themselves any security, either to or from their houses,...
Jeremiah 48:28 dwell H3427 (H8802) Moab H4124 Leave H5800 (H8798) cities H5892 dwell H7931 (H8798) rock...
THE HUMBLING OF MOAB AND JUDGMENT ON HER CITIES (JEREMIAH 48:14). Jeremiah 48:14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, And valiant men for the war?' Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into hi...
D). PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). Whilst the Philistines were a constant trouble to Israel/Judah from the west, mainly troubling western Israel/Judah, eastern Israel/Judah, especially east of...
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Moab. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has all armies at His command. He will in His own time plead the cause of His people against a people that have always...
Jeremiah 48:1. _Against Moab, saith the Lord._ Isaiah had prophesied of the devastation of Moab by Salmaneser: chap. 15, 16. Jeremiah here speaks of the terrible conquest of the country by Nebuchadnez...
_Dwell in the rock, and be like the dove._ DOVE AND ROCK I. God shows much compassion not only to friends but to foes. 1. It is for Moab--guilty, apostate, persecuting Moab--that God expresses all...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Naegelsbach suggests, with ample justification, that “this prophecy certainly belongs to the time of Jehoiakim, and _before the fourth year...
EXPOSITION This prophecy is so full of repetitions that the question has naturally arisen whether the most prominent of these may not be due to interpolation. For instance: 1.Jeremiah 48:29-24 recur...
In forty-eight, he now directs his attention to Moab. Moab was across the Jordan on the east side of the Jordan River and of the Jordan rift. Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Isr...
1 Samuel 13:6; Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 48:9; Jeremiah 49:16; Judges 6:2;...
O ye — Still the prophet speaks of the Moabites, as a people whose armies were routed, and calls to them to leave their houses in cities, not promising themselves any security, either to or from their...