Near to come - Twenty-three years elapsed between the fourth year of Jehoiakim, when this prophecy was spoken, and its accomplishment by the…

How say ye ... — In the boast that follows we trace the characteristic pride of Moab. The prophet points to the fact that…

Here the Prophet expresses something more: that the vengeance of which he spoke was near and hastening. It served to alleviate the sorrow of the fa…

The calamity of Moab [is] near to come As it did come within live years after the destruction of Jerusalem, as observed o…