Jeremiah 48:1--49:22
Moab <04124> [A.M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab.]
Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]
<04869> [Misgab. or, The high place.]
praise <08416> [no more.]
Heshbon <02809> [Heshbon.]
<03212> [come.]
<01826> [thou shalt.]
<01826> [cut down. or, brought to silence.]
[Madmenah. pursue thee. Heb. go after thee.]
Cries <06963> [voice.]
Horonaim <02773> [Horonaim.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem.
distress <06810> [her.]
Luhith <03872> [Luhith.]
Luhith is placed by Eusebius between Areopolis, or Ar, and Zoar. (See ver. 34.) It was evidently situated upon a height; as was also Horonaim, which was probably not far from Luhith.
weeping <01065> [continual weeping. Heb. weeping with weeping.]
Run <05127> [Flee.]
be ..... shrub <01961 06176> [be like.]
shrub <06176> [the heath. or, a naked tree.]
trust <0982> [because.]
god Chemosh <03645> [Chemosh.]
priests <03548> [his priests.]
destroyer <07703> [the spoiler.]
town .... town <05892> [and no.]
gravestone <06731> [wings.]
cities <05892> [the cities.]
curse ............. curse <0779> [Cursed.]
lax <07423> [deceitfully. or, negligently.]
lived undisturbed <07599> [hath been.]
settle undisturbed <08252> [he hath.]
poured out <07324> [emptied.]
[thereof.]
<05975> [remained. Heb. stood.]
empty ... out .... empty the towns <06808> [wanderers.]
<07324> [empty.]
disappointed .......... disappointed <0954> [ashamed.]
<01004> [as the.]
say <0559> [How.]
mighty <01368> [We.]
destroyed <07703> [spoiled.]
finest <04005> [his chosen. Heb. the choice of his, etc.]
affirm <05002> [saith.]
<08034> [whose.]
<07138> [near.]
Mourn <05110> [bemoan.]
powerful <05797> [How.]
<01323> [daughter.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
sit on ....... live <03427> [and sit.]
destroy <07703> [the spoiler.]
live <03427> [inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Aroer.]
Question <07592> [ask.]
disgraced <03001> [confounded.]
Arnon <0769> [Arnon.]
plain <04334> [the plain.]
Jahzah <03096> [Jahazah.]
[Jahaza.]
[Jahaz.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
Beth Diblathaim <01015> [Beth-diblathaim.]
[Almon-diblathaim.]
[Diblath.]
Kiriathaim <07156> [Kiriathaim.]
[Shaveh Kiriathaim.]
[Kirjathaim. Beth-meon.]
[Baal-meon.]
[Beth-baal-meon.]
Kerioth <07152> [Kerioth.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
[Bezer.]
[Bezor.]
might <07161> [horn.]
power <02220> [and his.]
vaunted <07937> [ye him.]
wrath <01431> [for he.]
splashes <05606> [wallow.]
laughingstock <07814> [and he also.]
Israel <03478> [was not.]
<04672> [was he found.]
talked <05110> [skippedst. or, movedst thyself.]
Leave <05800> [leave.]
dove <03123> [like.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
arrogant <01363> [his loftiness.]
know <03045> [know.]
boastings ... prove <06213 0907> [his lies shall not so effect it. or, those on whom he stayeth (Heb. his bars) do not right.]
{Baddim,} as Lowth observes, sometimes means those who pretend to the art of divination. Though the soothsayers of Moab, upon whose skill she relies, promise him success, yet in the event it will appear there was no truth in what they said.
weep with sorrow <03213> [will I howl.]
Kir Heres <07025> [Kir-heres.]
[Kar-haraseth.]
[Kir-hareseth.]
grapevines <01612> [vine.]
[Shibmah.]
Jazer ....................... Jazer <03270> [Jazer.]
[Jaazer.]
destroyer <07703> [the spoiler.]
Joy <08057> [joy.]
wine <03196> [caused.]
Cries of anguish <02201> [the cry.]
Elealeh <0500> [Elealeh.]
Jahaz <03096> [Jahaz.]
[Jahazah. Zoar.]
Eglath Shelishiyah <05697 07992> [as an heifer of.]
As a young cow, when deprived of her first calf; which runs about from place to place, filling the air with loud and repeated lowings, expressive of the deepest distress.
Nimrim <05249> [Nimrim.]
[Nimrah.]
[Beth-nimrah.]
dried <04923> [desolate. Heb. desolations.]
offerings <05927> [him that offereth.]
heart ..................... heart <03820> [mine heart.]
Kir Heres <07025> [Kir-heres.]
wealth <03502> [the riches.]
heads <07218> [every head.]
cut off <01639> [clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.]
<04975> [upon the loins.]
housetops <01406> [upon.]
break <07665> [broken.]
shattered <02865> [How is it.]
turn away <06203> [back. Heb. neck. a derision.]
swoop down <01675> [he shall.]
outspread <06566> [spread.]
<07152> [Kerioth. or, The cities.]
<03820> [as the heart.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (ch. 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!
nation <05971> [from.]
vaunted <01431> [magnified.]
<05127> [that fleeth.]
time <08141> [the year.]
fire <0784> [a fire.]
burn <0398> [devour.]
war-loving people <01121 07588> [tumultuous ones. Heb. children of noise.]
doomed <0188> [Woe.]
people <05971> [the people.]
captive ......... exile <07628 07633> [captives. Heb. in captivity.]
reverse <07725> [Yet will I bring.]
Many of the Moabites were afterwards restored to their country by Cyrus, as we learn from Josephus; but they never were restored to their national consequence; and perhaps their restoration in the latter days refers to the conversion of their scattered remnants to the gospel.
to come <0319> [in the latter.]
Ammonites ......... people of the nation <01121> [A.M. 3421. B.C. 583. Concerning. or, Against.]
Ammonites ......... people of the nation <01121> [Ammonites.]
<04428> [their king. or, Melcom.]
cities <05892> [cities.]
sound <08643> [that I will.]
Rabbah <07237> [Rabbah.]
[Rabbath.]
villages <01323> [her daughters.]
Israel <03478> [shall Israel.]
Wail <03213> [Howl.]
Put on <02296> [gird.]
Run about <07751> [run.]
god Milcom <04428> [their king. or, Melcom.]
[Milcom.]
[Malcham.]
<03212> [shall go.]
brag about <01984> [gloriest.]
great power ... power ... ebbing away <02100 06010> [thy flowing valley. or, they valley floweth away. O backsliding.]
trust <0982> [trusted.]
attack <0935> [Who.]
bring <0935> [I will.]
scattered <05080> [ye shall.]
gather <06908> [none.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
wisdom ...................... wisdom <02451> [Is wisdom.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
flee <05127> [Flee.]
Turn <06437> [turn back. or, they are turned back. dwell.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
bring .......... decided <0935> [for.]
grape pickers <01219> [grape-gatherers.]
needed <01767> [till they have enough. Heb. their sufficiency.]
Esau's <06215> [I have made.]
hiding places <04565> [his secret.]
children <02233> [his seed.]
[he is not.]
orphans <03490> [thy fatherless.]
widows <0490> [let thy.]
deserve <04941> [they whose.]
solemnly swear <07650> [I have.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
object of horror <08047> [a desolation.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
messenger <06735> [an ambassador.]
Gather <06908> [Gather.]
terror <08606> [terribleness.]
home <07931> [dwellest.]
nest <07064> [though.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
pass by <05674> [every.]
hiss out their scorn <08319> [shall hiss.]
destroyed <04114> [in the.]
<0376> [no man.]
coming up <05927> [he shall come.]
thick undergrowth <01347> [the swelling.]
call ... to account <03259> [who is like.]
call ... to account <03259> [appoint me the time. or, convent me in judgment.]
ruler <07462> [that shepherd.]
what <06098> [the counsel.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
little ones ........... land <06810 05116> [Surely.]
The prophet having given the name of the shepherd to the generals of the army, pursues the same metaphor, calling the common soldiers, "the least of the flock;" who shall have strength and courage enough to the defeat the Idumean forces.
land <05116> [make.]
earth <0776> [earth.]
[Red sea. Heb. Weedy sea.]
soar up <05927> [he shall.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
soldiers ....... fearful <03820 01368> [the heart of the.]
