Brick wall. Hebrew Kir-cheres, (Isaias xvi. 7.; Calmet) "the city of the sun;" (Grotius) Ar, the capital. The prophet joins in the mournful canticle, as was usual, Luke vii. 32. (Calmet) --- Those who boast of more than they have, are compared to an earthen wall. (Worthington)
MINE HEART ... - Rather, “there shall be mourning for” etc....
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
Moab's pride is without foundation, doomed to a fall which the prophet laments; comparing the past glory with the far-reaching tendrils of a choice vine (Jeremiah 48:32). There is no longer the joy of...
MINE HEART SHALL MOURN. must one mourn. So the St. Petersburg Codex (A.D. 916), with note that the Eastern Massorites read "I shall mourn". KIR-HERES. Now _Kerak,_ the fortified town east of southern...
See introd. summary to the ch. The passage may contain some Jeremianic matter, but on the whole is late (see also on Jeremiah 48:37) and borrowed to a large extent from Is. 15., 16. (chs. which are pe...
Based on Isaiah 16:7, but the influence of the first person in Jeremiah 48:9 there ("I will, etc.") has led here to the prophet's grief for Moab being represented as caused by her pride. _will I howl_...
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...
F. Bitter Lamentation Jeremiah 48:31-38 TRANSLATION (31) Therefore, I will wail over Moab, and I will cry out for all of Moab, and I will moan for the men of Kir-heres. (32) With more than the weepin...
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. I WILL CRY OUT FOR ... MOAB - not that it deserves pity, but the prophet's "crying...
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...
THEREFORE WILL I HOWL FOR MOAB. — The changes of person are remarkable. The “I” that speaks is neither Jehovah nor the prophet, but the unnamed mourner, who in the next clause appears in the third per...
עַל ־כֵּן֙ עַל ־מֹואָ֣ב אֲיֵלִ֔יל וּ לְ
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...
(r) Therefore will I wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [my heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. (r) Read (Isaiah 16:7)....
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...
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,” ק...
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...
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 expres...
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. Ver. 31. _Therefore will I howl._] Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 15:5 ....
_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...
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 the...
Therefore will I howl for Moab, raise his voice in lamentation, AND I WILL CRY OUT FOR ALL MOAB; MINE HEART SHALL MOURN FOR THE MEN OF KIR-HERES, the strongest citadel of the country, probably identic...
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...
Though wicked men rejoice and triumph in the ruin of good men, yet their charity suffereth them not to do the like, but engageth them to mourn for them in the day of their affliction. Jeremiah declare...
Jeremiah 48:31 wail H3213 (H8686) Moab H4124 out H2199 (H8799) Moab H4124 mourn H1897 (H8799) men...
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...
A LAMENT OVER MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:29). The fate of Moab is very much linked with its overweening pride. It tended to be out of the way of invaders from the north who would use the coastal route, and aft...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:31 Compare Isaiah 16:7, Isaiah 16:11. God mourns over the necessity of judging...
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...
2 Kings 3:25; Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 16:7; Jeremiah 48:36
Kir — herez — A city of Moab....