George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 48:43
Fear. It was customary to hand feathers near a wood, to frighten the prey into pits or nets, Isaias xxiv. 17. (Sanctius)
Fear. It was customary to hand feathers near a wood, to frighten the prey into pits or nets, Isaias xxiv. 17. (Sanctius)
Verse Jeremiah 48:43. _FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE_] See the note on Isaiah 24:17....
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
JEREMIAH 40-47. The foe swoops down vulture-like (Jeremiah 4:13) on Moab, destroyed because of pride against Yahweh. One disaster succeeds another in this time of punishment (visitation, Jeremiah 11:2...
FEAR. Terror....
Cp. Isaiah 24:17 f. and probably a proverb in frequent use. We cannot reproduce in English the assonance _paḥad vâpaḥath vâpâḥ_. See on Lamentations 3:47....
FEAR— _Terror._...
G. Inescapable Destruction Jeremiah 48:39-46 TRANSLATION (39) How sad the dismay! They howl! How sad that Moab has turned the back in shame! Moab shall become an object of derision and terror to thos...
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...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE, SHALL BE UPON THEE - (note, Isaiah 24:17). "Fear" is the technical term...
48:43 snare (d-7) As Isaiah 24:17 ....
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...
(43)FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE. — The words are a reproduction of Isaiah 24:17, which had probably passed into something like proverbial use. The sequence in each case shows that each word plays...
פַּ֥חַד וָ פַ֖חַת וָ פָ֑ח עָלֶ֛יךָ יֹושֵׁ֥ב
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...
(y) Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. (y) He that escapes one danger will be taken by another, (Isaiah 24:17)....
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...
By these words the Prophet skews, that though the Moabites should adopt many means of escape, yet they should be taken, for God’s hand would everywhere entrap them. He mentions _terror _first, then th...
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...
FEAR, AND THE PIT, AND THE SNARE, [SHALL BE] UPON THEE,.... A proverbial expression, showing, that if they escaped one danger, or sore judgment, they should fall into another and greater: the words se...
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [shall be] upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. Ver. 43. _Fear and the pit._] See Isaiah 24:17 ....
_Behold, he shall fly as an eagle_ Conquerors are often compared to eagles and other birds of prey; and the encamping of their armies is represented by the spreading of the wings of such fowls. _The m...
Fear and the pit, used by the hunter of big game, AND THE SNARE, used by the fowler, SHALL BE UPON THEE, O INHABITANT OF MOAB, SAITH THE LORD, some sort of catastrophe being sure to strike the proud a...
LAMENTATION OVER MOAB...
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...
These three words, FEAR, PIT, SNARE, signify no more than a variety of dangers that should be on all sides of them, so as if any escaped one danger, he should presently meet with another, for this was...
Jeremiah 48:43 Fear H6343 pit H6354 snare H6341 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) Moab H4124 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
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...
THE COMING JUDGMENT ON MOAB AND ITS FINAL RESTORATION (JEREMIAH 48:39). In its pride Moab considered itself invulnerable and well able to take care of itself. It exalted its own god, Chemosh, above YH...
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 48:43 MOAB will be hunted down and captured like animals. See Isaiah 24:17;...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:23; Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 24:18; Lamentations 3:47;...
Fear — A variety of dangers upon all sides....