John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 48:38

"On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah." — Jeremiah 48:38 (ASV)

[There shall be] lamentation generally Or, "all of it [is] mourning" ^F14 ; the whole country of Moab is in mourning; or all is full of mourning; all persons, places, and things, express nothing but mourning; go where you will, it is to be seen:

upon all the house tops of Moab, and in the streets thereof ; the mourning, as it was general, it was public; it was seen by all, and everywhere; (See Gill on Isaiah 15:3);

for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord ; as an earthen vessel, which the potter does not like, and which is useless and unprofitable to any, and which he takes and dashes into pieces; into a thousand shivers, as the word ^F15 here signifies, and can never be put together again; or as a filthy unclean vessel a man cannot bear in his sight: Moab is by the Lord called his wash pot, (Psalms 60:8) . The Moabites were vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction by their own this; and now the time of it was come.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F14: (dpom hlk) "totus luctus (est) vel omnia luctus (sunt)", Schmidt; "totus erit planctus", Junius & Tremellius; "per omnia erit planctus", Piscator.
• F15: (ytrbv) "totalis confractio praedicitur", Schmidt.