Therefore, &c.— The music of pipes was used at funerals. See Sir Norton Knatchbull's notes on Matthew 9:23. See Isaiah 16:11. Galen compares the hoarse and dead sound of the bowels when they are empty to that of the flutes used at funerals. See lib. 3: de Symtomat. Causis.
LIKE PIPES - A wind instrument, used at funerals Matthew 9:23. THE RICHES THAT HE HATH GOTTEN - literally, “that which remains over, a superfluity.”...
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...
LIKE PIPES. Used in mourning at funerals. Compare Matthew 9:23....
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...
_soundeth for Moab like pipes_ Their use was connected with funerals, so that the word is appropriate as expressing mourning. Isaiah's word is "an harp" (Jeremiah 16:11)....
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...
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. MY HEART SHALL SOUND FOR M...
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...
Pipes] They were used at funerals, so that the word is appropriate to express mourning....
MINE HEART SHALL SOUND FOR MOAB LIKE PIPES... — The words reproduce Isaiah 16:11. His heart becomes, as it were, musical in its groans and sighs. He cannot look on the panic-stricken and mourning city...
עַל ־כֵּ֞ן לִבִּ֤י לְ מֹואָב֙ כַּ חֲלִלִ֣ים
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...
Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like (u) pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten have perished. (u) Their custom was to pl...
_Pipes. Hebrew chalilim, (Haydock) lyre or flutes. Such were used at funerals of children; (Matthew ix. 23.) trumpets sounded for men. (Servius) --- Could; opposing the conqueror of Asia, ver. 30, 31....
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, as it has been before stated, does not mourn the calamity of the people of Moab, but assumes the character of others, so that the event might appear more evident, it being set as it...
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...
THEREFORE MY HEART SHALL SOUND FOR MOAB LIKE PIPES,.... That are sounded on mournful occasions, as at funerals, and the like; see Matthew 9:23. This the prophet said, as Kimchi observes, in the person...
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished. Ver. 36. _Therefore my hear...
_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...
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...
LAMENTATION OVER MOAB...
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, sighing with the wailing sound of the flute, AND MINE HEART SHALL SOUND LIKE PIPES FOR THE MEN OF KIR-HERES, the chief stronghold of Moab, BECAUSE...
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...
The prophet means such pipes as they were wont to use at funerals, and other sad occasions, to play doleful lessons upon; see ISAIAH 15:5; because of the great change in the state of this poor people,...
Jeremiah 48:36 heart H3820 wail H1993 (H8799) flutes H2485 Moab H4124 flutes H2485 heart H3820 wail H1993 ...
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...
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...
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...
_Because the riches that he hath gotten are perished._ RICHES ARE EVER LIABLE TO PERISH Prosperity is not to be deemed the greatest security. The lofty unbending cedar is more exposed to the injuriou...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:36 MY HEART MOANS. God mourns that Moab’s people will lose the possessions they spent a lifetime collecting. Though God in his justice brings righteous judgment against si...
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...
Ecclesiastes 5:13; Ecclesiastes 5:14; Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 15:7;...
Pipes — The prophet means such pipes as they were wont to use at funerals, and other sad occasions....