Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 48
Albert Barnes Commentary
Jeremiah 48
Albert Barnes Commentary
Jeremiah 48
"Of Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down." — Jeremiah 48:1 (ASV)
Against Moab – Concerning Moab.
Is confounded – Is brought to shame.
Misgab – The high fort; some special fortress, probably Kir-haraseth (2 Kings 3:25).
"The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee." — Jeremiah 48:2 (ASV)
No more praise of Moab - literally, “The glory of Moab is no more,” that is, Moab has no more cause for boasting.
Heshbon - This town now belonged to the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:3) but was on the border. The enemy encamped there arranges the plan of his campaign against Moab.
In the original there is a play of words upon the names Heshbon and Madmen.
"The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!" — Jeremiah 48:3 (ASV)
Omit "shall be." Spoiling and great destruction, literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim (Isaiah 15:5).
"Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard." — Jeremiah 48:4 (ASV)
Moab - Probably the city elsewhere called Ar-Moab. See the Septuagint of this verse.
"For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction." — Jeremiah 48:5 (ASV)
Luhith was situated upon an eminence, and Jeremiah describes one set of weeping fugitives as pressing close upon another.
In the going down of Horonaim ... — Rather, in the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distresses of the cry of breaking, that is, the cry of distress occasioned by the ruin inflicted by the enemy. It was situated in a hollow, probably near the Dead Sea.
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