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A Nation's Public Grief
Commentators explain that the lamentation on housetops and in streets was both total and public. In that culture, flat housetops were gathering places, so mourning there made the grief visible to all. The judgment on Moab was so complete that every part of the nation, public and private, would be filled with open sorrow.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 48:38
18th Century
Theologian
Generally — Rather, entirely.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 48:38
19th Century
Bishop
Upon all the housetops of Moab. — The flat roof of Eastern houses was the natural gathering place of people in a time of …
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 48:38
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet, at the beginning of the verse, continues the same subject: that the Moabites would weep and lament throughout all their houses
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 48:38
17th Century
Pastor
[There shall be] lamentation generally Or, "all of it [is] mourning" F14 ; the whole country of Moab is in mou…