For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Ver. 37. For every head shall be bald.] This was the doings among the Easterlings, in times of mourning.
Verse Jeremiah 48:37. _FOR EVERY HEAD_ SHALL BE _BALD_] These, as we have seen before, were signs of the deepest distress and desolation....
CUTTINGS - Compare Jeremiah 16:6, and marginal references....
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...
EVERY HEAD. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one margin), read "For upon every head". BALD. baldness. The symbol of mourning. Compare Jeremiah 47:5. UPON THE LOINS. Some codices, with...
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...
All shall have the usual indications of mourning. See on ch. Jeremiah 16:6....
Cp. Isaiah 15:2 f. From "for I have broken" (Jeremiah 48:38) to "upon Moab" (Jeremiah 48:44) is either wholly or in a large part the work of a supplementer....
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...
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. EVERY HEAD SHALL BE BALD - (note, , "Baldness is come upon Gaza;" Isaiah...
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...
All shall have the usual emblems of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 47:5....
כִּ֤י כָל ־רֹאשׁ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְ כָל ־זָקָ֖ן
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...
_Shaven, or "clipt," (Protestants; Haydock) as in mourning. --- Tied. Hebrew, "cut," chap. xvi. 6. (Calmet) --- Such signs of mourning were usual in those countries. The Romans let their hair grow. (C...
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...
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...
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...
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 sa...
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...
_From the cry of Heshbon_ When Heshbon was taken by the enemy, the cry of the inhabitants reached as far as Elealeh and Jahaz: the same was likewise heard from Zoar to Horonaim. _As a heifer of three...
For every head shall be bald, shaved as a sign of deep grief, AND EVERY BEARD CLIPPED, another evidence of mourning; UPON ALL THE HANDS SHALL BE CUTTINGS, incisions such as the heathen made in deep so...
LAMENTATION OVER MOAB...
CLIPPED: _ Heb._ diminished...
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 phrases are expounded in the beginning of the following verse, There shall be lamentation generally upon all the house-tops of Moab. Shaving of the hair, and clipping the beards, and cutting the...
Jeremiah 48:37 head H7218 bald H7144 beard H2206 clipped H1639 (H8803) hands H3027 cuts H1417 loins H4975 sackc
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...
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...
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 Kings 18:28; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 6:30; Amos 8:10; Ezekiel 27:31;