Berean Standard Bible
Jeremiah 48:31-45
31Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.132I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea;2 they reach even to Jazer.3 The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh;they raise their voices to Jahaz,from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah;for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
35In Moab, declares the LORD,I will bring an endto those who make offerings on the high placesand burn incense to their gods.36Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab;it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres,because the wealth they acquired has perished.
37For every head is shavedand every beard is clipped;on every hand is a gash,and around every waist is sackcloth.38On all the rooftops of Moaband in the public squares,everyone is mourning;for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,”declares the LORD.39“How shattered it is! How they wail!How Moab has turned his back in shame!Moab has become an object of ridicule and horrorto all those around him.”
40For this is what the LORD says:
“Behold, an eagle swoops downand spreads his wings against Moab.41Kirioth has been taken,and the strongholds seized.In that day the heart of Moab’s warriorswill be like the heart of a woman in labor.42Moab will be destroyed as a nationbecause he vaunted himself against the LORD.
43Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,”declares the LORD.44“Whoever flees the panicwill fall into the pit,and whoever climbs from the pitwill be caught in the snare.For I will bring upon Moabthe year of their punishment,”declares the LORD.45“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow,because fire has gone forth from Heshbonand a flame from within Sihon.It devours the foreheads of Moaband the skulls of the sons of tumult.
Notes
- 1. Jeremiah 48:31 Kir-heres is a variant of Kir-hareseth; also in verse 36; see Isaiah 16:7. ↩
- 2. Jeremiah 48:32 Probably the Dead Sea ↩
- 3. Jeremiah 48:32 Two Hebrew manuscripts and LXX; most Hebrew manuscripts to the Sea of Jazer ↩
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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