Jeremiah 48:36

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 MOAB - (notes, ; ). LIKE PIPES - a plaintive instrument, therefore used at funerals and in general mourning. THE RICHES THAT HE HATH GOTTEN ARE PERISHED - literally, the abundance ... that which is over and above the necessaries of life [superabundance, yitrat]. Grotius translates, 'They who have been left remaining shall perish;' they who have not been slain by the enemy shall perish by disease and famine....

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 were before our eyes; for as we have said, the wealth of the Moabites was so great at that time, that it dazzled the eyes of all. It was then difficult for the faithful to form an idea of this vengeance of God, therefore the Prophet transfers to himself the feelings of others, and relates what the Moabites would do, when God had so grievously afflicted them. _My heart_, he says, _shall sound like pipes _Some think that mournful pipes are meant, but I know not whether or not they were instruments of this kind; and there are those who think that חללים, _chellim_, were bag-pipes, but what is too refined I leave. The Prophet simply means that such would be the trepidation, that the hearts of the...

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 reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to search into all the figures and expressions here used. Yet it is not perpetual destruction. The chapter ends with a promise of their return out of captivity in the latter days. Even with Moabites God will not contend for ever, nor be always wroth. The Jews refer it to the days of the Messiah; then the captives of the Gentiles, under the yoke of sin and Satan, shall be brought back by Divine grace, which shall make them free indeed....

LIKE PIPES - A wind instrument, used at funerals Matthew 9:23. THE RICHES THAT HE HATH GOTTEN - literally, “that which remains over, a superfluity.”...

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 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 of the people, the inhabitants of Moab; whose hearts would yearn and sound for the calamities of their country like the doleful sound of minstrels. So the Targum, "therefore the Moabites shall sound in their hearts like a harp:'' AND MY HEART SHALL SOUND LIKE PIPES FOR THE MEN OF KIRHERES; as for the country of Moab in general, so for this principal city, and the inhabitants of it, in particular; Isaiah 16:11; BECAUSE THE RICHES [THAT] HE HATH GOTTEN IS PERISHED; either Moab or Kirheres; the abundance of goods they had got together were now lost, falling into

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'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 the ingathering; the shout of battle replaces that of the vintage (Jeremiah 48:33). The beginning of Jeremiah 48:34 is corrupt and yields no sense, but the general meaning is that there shall be widespread ruin. The _worship of the land is brought_ to an end (Jeremiah 48:35). Hence the prophet's sorrow for Moab, a land filled with mourning (Je

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 perhaps earlier than Isaiah's time and republished by him. See Skinner, C.B. _ad loc_.)....