For it will be – It will happen in the time of the calamity that will come upon Moab.

As a wandering bird – . The same idea is…

As a wandering bird cast out of the nest. —Better as in the margin, a forsaken nest.

The “daughters of Mo…

It shall be as a bird let loose. The Prophet now shows what he meant by the former mockery: that the Moabites should not at that time thin…

For it shall be Or, "otherwise it shall be" ^F26 ; if you do not pay this tribute: [that] as a wand…

God tells sinners what they may do to prevent ruin; so He does to Moab. Let them send the tribute they formerly engaged to pay to Judah. Take it as…

1. Send forth, O Lord, the lamb. Here he describes the state of their punishment, and he sets out two conditions: