Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Jeremiah 48:27
since. as often as, or whenever.
skippedst for joy. didst shake thyself in excitement, or wag thy head.
since. as often as, or whenever.
skippedst for joy. didst shake thyself in excitement, or wag thy head.
Verse Jeremiah 48:27. _WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION UNTO THEE?_] Didst thou not mock my people, and say their God was no better than the gods of other nations? See Ezekiel 25:8. _WAS HE FOUND AMONG THI...
WAS HE FOUND ... - Or, “was he found among thieves that so often as thou speakest of him” thou waggest thy head? - in contempt for a fallen enemy....
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
Enumeration of the cities which are to suffer (Jeremiah 48:20). The strength of Moab is destroyed, and Moab is become drunken (with the cup of Yahweh, Jeremiah 25:15), an object of present derision, a...
_was he found among thieves_?] i.e. Thou couldst not, O Moab, have treated him with more contempt, hadst thou caught him in the act of stealing. Cp. Jeremiah 2:26. _waggest the head_ in scorn. Cp. Psa...
See introd. summary to the ch....
Probably post-Jeremianic....
FOR WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION— Houbigant renders the verse thus; _For was not Israel a derision to thee, and wast thou not found with those who made songs upon him? How didst thou speak of him! how di...
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...
D. Complete Degradation Jeremiah 48:18-28 TRANSLATION (18) Go down from your glory! Sit in thirst, O delicate daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has gone up against you; he will destroy you...
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. (, "I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children...
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...
WAS HE FOUND AMONG THIEVES] that he merited SUCH treatment. SINCE] RV 'as often as.'...
WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION UNTO THEE? — The “derision” had been shown at an earlier stage in the history of Judah (Zephaniah 2:8; comp. Ezekiel 25:6), but was, we may well believe, reproduced when the...
וְ אִ֣ם ׀ לֹ֣וא הַ שְּׂחֹ֗ק הָיָ֤ה לְךָ֙
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...
For was not Israel a derision to thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou hast spoken of him, thou didst (p) leap for joy. (p) You rejoiced to hear of his misery, (Isaiah 16:6)....
_Thieves. Chap. ii. 26. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "was he found among thieves? for since thou speakest of him, thou skippest for joy." (Haydock) --- Chaldean agrees with the Vulgate, which is clearer....
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...
But the higher cause for the drunkenness mentioned here ought to be observed, even because Moab exalted himself against God. For after having spoken of the pride through which he exulted over God, he...
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 WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION UNTO THEE?.... In the time of his calamity, when the ten tribes were carried captive by the Assyrians some years ago; and of late the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin by...
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. Ver. 27. _For was not Israel a derision unto thee?_] _sc., _ When he was ca...
_Make ye him drunken_ God's judgments are often represented under the metaphor of a cup of intoxicating liquors: see note on Jeremiah 25:15. _Moab also shall wallow in his vomit_ The judgments which G...
Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Did Moab not make a mockery of the people of God? WAS HE FOUND AMONG THIEVES? FOR SINCE THOU SPAKEST OF HIM, THOU SKIPPEDST FOR JOY, or, "Had he been found amo...
SKIPPEDST FOR JOY: Or, movedst thyself...
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...
FOR WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION UNTO THEE? it is an ill thing to mock at the miseries of others, especially such as we have some relation to; the Moabites were descended from Lot, who was nearly related...
Jeremiah 48:27 Israel H3478 derision H7814 found H4672 (H8738) thieves H1590 whenever H1767 speak H1697 shake H5110
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 HUMBLING OF MOAB AND JUDGMENT ON HER CITIES (JEREMIAH 48:14). Jeremiah 48:14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, And valiant men for the war?' Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into hi...
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...
Ezekiel 25:8; Ezekiel 26:2; Ezekiel 26:3; Ezekiel 35:15; Ezekiel 36:2
Was he found — Why didst thou deal by Israel as men deal by thieves, when they are brought to shame?...