Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 48:32
Sibmah — Sibmah was famous in those days for vines. Jazer — Jazer was it seems first taken, and carried into captivity.
Sibmah — Sibmah was famous in those days for vines. Jazer — Jazer was it seems first taken, and carried into captivity.
Verse Jeremiah 48:32. _O VINE OF SIBMAH_] Isaiah 16:8....
Or, “More than the weeping of Jazer” over its ruined vineyards “will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah.” Compare the marginal reference. Jazer lies in an upland valley about 15 miles north of Heshbon....
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...
SIBMAH. Now probably _Sumia,_ east of Jordan. Compare Numbers 32:38. JAZER. Now _Beit Zer'ah,_ east of Jordan. PLANTS. branches. OVER THE SEA. Probably the Dead Sea....
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 16:8 f. _With more than the weeping of Jazer_ over its ruins, and wasted vineyards. But, by the slightest alteration of MT., we can obtain the reading in Is., viz. _with the weeping o...
EVEN TO THE SEA OF JAZER— _Unto Jazer have they extended._...
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...
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vint...
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...
Cp. Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 16:9. WITH] RV 'with more than.' PLANTS] RV 'branches.'Sibmah seems to have been famous for its vineyards. OVER THE SEA] as far as the W. shore of the Dead Sea. JAZER] N. of He...
O VINE OF SIBMAH. — Here again we have an echo of Isaiah 16:9. Sibmah appears in Joshua 13:19 as assigned to the Reubenites, in the region east of Jordan. After that date it does not appear again till...
מִ בְּכִ֨י יַעְזֵ֤ר אֶבְכֶּה ־לָּךְ֙ הַ גֶּ֣פ
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...
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants have gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea (s) of Jazer: the spoiler hath fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon...
_Jazer, or "more than for Jazer;" about six leagues to the north of Sebama, which had a rivulet communicating with the sea of Jazer._...
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 the Prophet shews more clearly what he had said generally before, that Sibmah would weep for her vines, after having wept for Jazer. These were cities in the land of Moab, as it appears from othe...
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 VINE OF SIBMAH, I WILL WEEP FOR THEE WITH THE WEEPING OF JAZER,.... Sibmah was a city in the land of Moab abounding with vines, but now should be destroyed; and Jazer another city in the same countr...
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vin...
_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...
Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer, or, "more than Jazer," since, because the vines of Sibmah excelled in grapes which they produced, their destruction by the enemy was a...
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...
We read of this VINE OF SIBMAH also ISAIAH 16:8,9. Both Sibmah and Jahaza were places in the portion of Reuben, JOSHUA 13:18,19. Sibmah was doubtless a place famous in those days for vines and vineyar...
Jeremiah 48:32 vine H1612 Sibmah H7643 weep H1058 (H8799) weeping H1065 Jazer H3270 plants H5189 over H5674 ...
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...
Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 16:9; Jeremiah 40:10; Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremia