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Jeremiah 48:11

Moab hath been at ease from his youth He hath not been driven from his land hitherto. The feeling of horror at suffering expatriation, as compared with the consequences of a more ordinary defeat in battle such as the nation had often suffered in past time, is well exhibited by these verses.

settled on his lees Wine improved by being allowed to rest upon its sediment (Isaiah 25:6; but contrast the use of the figure in Zephaniah 1:12). Its "taste" and "scent" were unimpaired. If emptied from vessel to vessel it would become vapid, without fragrance and tasteless. Something like this was now to happen to the nation by being taken captives.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 48:11. _MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE_] The metaphor here is taken from the mode of preserving wines. They let them rest upon their lees for a considerable time, as this improves them both in...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Moab from the time it conquered the Emims Deuteronomy 2:9, and so became a nation, had retained quiet possession of its land, and enjoyed comparative prosperity. From the Moabite Stone we gather that...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Moab, hitherto undisturbed, is compared with wine left standing on its sediment (Isaiah 25:6), and retaining its flavour and scent (_i.e._ being self-centred and undisciplined; _cf._ the pride of Jere...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HATH BEEN AT EASE. Since Moab had driven out the Emims (Deuteronomy 2:10). REMAINED. stood....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE— Instead of _hath been at ease,_ the Chaldee renders, _hath been opulent;—from his youth,_ means from the time of Salmanezer. He hath never felt any calamity, since that judgmen...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Prophetic Explanation Jeremiah 48:11-17 TRANSLATION (11) From his youth Moab has been at ease, and settled on his lees; he was not emptied from vessel to vessel, nor had he gone into captivity; th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SETTLED ON HIS LEES] i.e. like wine which has remained undisturbed and not lost its flavour. LEES means sediment. Moab had retained its strength, but it was not to last....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS LEES. — The image, found also in Zephaniah 1:12, is drawn from the practice of pouring wine from one vessel into another to clarify it and improve its flavour. Wine not so treat...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שַׁאֲנַ֨ן מֹואָ֜ב מִ נְּעוּרָ֗יו וְ שֹׁקֵ֥ט ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been (i) emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, a...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Fruitful as a vine. --- Lees. The wine has not been disturbed. It was customary to keep it first in pits, (Mark xii. 1., and Isaias v. 1.) and afterwards in large earthen vessels. Vina bibes Tauro dif...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Prophet Jeremiah, whom the Lord when giving him his commission, had set over the nations and over the kingdoms, (see Jeremiah 1:10) is here arraigning, trying, and condemning Moab; and an awful co...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here he expresses more clearly what we have before seen, that Moab in vain promised to himself perpetual impunity, because he had for a long time been prosperous. Then the Prophet says that he would b...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH,.... Lived in great peace and prosperity from the time they became a kingdom; being very little disturbed with wars by their neighbours, or very rarely; so that t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and h...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Moab hath been at ease_ Or, _hath been opulent_, as the Chaldee renders שׁאנן, _from his youth_ Moab was an ancient kingdom, and had enjoyed great tranquillity, though a small country and surrounded...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moab hath been at ease from his youth, never really having suffered the reverses which fell to the lot of some other nations, AND HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS LEES, like poor wine which turns to vinegar aft...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    REMAINED: _ Heb._ stood...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH; the Moabites ever since they began to be a people have been a quiet people, not exercised with wars, and enemies making inroads upon them. HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 48:11 Moab H4124 ease H7599 (H8768) youth H5271 settled H8252 (H8802) dregs H8105 emptied H7324 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESTRUCTION OF MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). Note how, as in Isaiah 15, the towns and prominent places are mentioned by name. Some of them were towns that had been taken over from Israel (compare Mesha's...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 48:11 The principle that underlies the text is this: that we require to be unsettled in life by many changes and interruptions of adversity, in order to be most effectually loosened from our...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Moab hath been at ease from him youth, and he hath settled on his lees._ THE SHRILL TRUMPET OF ADMONITION For a considerable season the country of Moab had been free from the inroads of war and the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:11 MOAB has survived many previous invasions (v. Jeremiah 48:9). Thus, Moab has become complacent and settled on

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 16:49; Ezekiel 16:50; Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 24:3; Isaiah 25:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    At ease — The Moabites ever since they began to be a people, have been a quiet people. Settled — Like a cask of wine, that has not been racked but has continued in the same state. Not emptied — A meta...

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