Jeremiah 48:29

Jeremiah 48:29

27 For ^awas not Israel a derision to you?
^bWas he found among thieves?
For whenever you speak of him,
You shake your head in ^cscorn.

28 You who dwell in Moab,
Leave the cities and ^adwell in the rock,
And be like ^bthe dove which makes her nest
In the sides of the cave’s mouth.

29 “We have heard the ^apride of Moab
(He is exceedingly proud),
Of his loftiness and arrogance and ^bpride,
And of the haughtiness of his heart.”

30 “I know his¹ wrath,” says the Lord,
“But it is not right;
^aHis lies have made nothing right.

31 Therefore ^aI will wail for Moab,
And I will cry out for all Moab;
¹I will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.

32 ^aO vine of Sibmah! I will weep for you with the weeping of ^bJazer.
Your plants have gone over the sea,
They reach to the sea of Jazer.
The plunderer has fallen on your summer fruit and your vintage.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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pride— (Isaiah 16:6-7). Moab was the trumpeter of his own fame. Jeremiah adds "loftiness and arrogancy" to Isaiah's picture, so that Moab had not only not been bettered by the chastisement previously endured as foretold by Isaiah, but had even become worse; so that his guilt, and therefore his sentence of punishment, are increased now. Six times Moab's pride (or the synonyms) are mentioned, to show the exceeding hatefulness of his sin.

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