Jeremiah 48:12

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. I WILL SEND UNTO HIM WANDERERS, THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER - rather, 'pourers out that shall pour him out' [ tso`iym (H6808) wªtsee`uhuw (H6808)], retaining the image of Jeremiah 48:11; - i:e., the Chaldeans, who shall remove Moab from his settlements, as men pour wine from off the lees into other vessels. SHALL EMPTY HIS VESSELS, AND BREAK THEIR BOTTLES. "His vessels" are the cities of Moab; the broken "bottles" the men slain. "Their bottles" are the men in the cities (Grotius). The Hebrew and...

The Prophet said in the last lecture that the Moabites, as long as they lived prosperously, were very hardened, as impunity becomes an incentive to sin; for the ungodly, while God spares them, think that they shall never be called to an account. He now adds, that the _days _would _come_, in which God would suddenly execute vengeance on them. But he pursues the comparison which he had used; for he had said, that the Moabites were like wine which had not been poured from one vessel into another; and hence they retained their own odor, that is, they were inebriated with their own pleasures, because God had granted them peace and quietness for a long time. Now, the Prophet, on the other hand, says that God would send to them _drivers_, (7) _to drive them away_, and who would _empty their vessels and scatter their bottles, _— the containing for the contained; though I do not disapprove of ano...

Verse Jeremiah 48:12. _I WILL SEND UNTO HIM WANDERERS THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO_ _WANDER_] Dr. _Blayney_ renders צעים _tsaim, tilters_; those who elevate one end of the wine cask when nearly run out that the remains of the liquor may be the more effectually drawn off at the cock. And this seems to be well supported by the following words, - _AND SHALL EMPTY HIS VESSELS_] I will send such as will carry the whole nation into captivity....

I WILL SEND - tilters “unto him and they shall” tilt “him, and they shall empty his vessels, and break their” pitchers “in pieces.” “Pitchers” originally meant “skins,” but the word came to signify small earthenware jars Isaiah 30:14 : thus the Chaldaeans shall destroy of Moab everything that has contained the wine of her political life both small and great....

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 Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 15:6; Isaiah 16:12, Isaiah 16:11;...

THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... This being their case, they should not continue in it; a change would be made, and that in a very short time, as there was; for, according to Josephus p, it was about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem that the Moabites were subdued by the king of Babylon: THAT I WILL SEND UNTO HIM WANDERERS THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER; the Chaldeans, who wandered out of their own country to Moab, directed by the providence of God to come there to do his work; and who, at first, might be treated by the Moabites with contempt, as vagrants, but would soon be made to know that they would cause them to wander; or would remove them out of their own country into other lands, particularly Babylon, to be vagrants there. The word may be rendered "travellers" q; and signifies such that walk with great strength of body, in a stately way, and with...

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 on account of its pride (Jeremiah 48:29) With these divisions the chapter may be studied in detail. Moab was of incestuous off spring Genesis 19:37. Israel is now exhorted to flee and save itself because Moab is to be destroyed. Moab's national deity was Chemosh, who was also worshipped by the sister nation, the

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 Jeremiah 48:29). But now she is roughly handled, and the jars (Jeremiah 48:12 _mg._ 2) broken. She shall be put to shame through (the helplessness of) Chemosh (so render in Jeremiah 48:13), as Israel was through her false trust in the worship at Bethel (Amos 5:5). In spite of her warriors, she is soon to be ravaged, and a dirge ...

BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. WANDERERS, THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER. tilters that shall tilt him. Keeping up the symbol of. wine-jar (Jeremiah 48:11)....

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