Send (a) ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the
wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
(a) That is, offer a sacrifice, by which he derides their long delay,
who would not repent when the Lord called them, showing them that it
is now too late seeing the vengeance of God is... [ Continue Reading ]
For it shall be, [that], as a (b) wandering bird cast out of the nest,
[so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
(b) There is no remedy but that you must flee.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take counsel, execute judgment; (c) make thy shadow as the night in
the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that
wandereth.
(c) He shows what Moab would have done, when Israel their neighbour
was in affliction, to whom because they would give no shadow or
comfort, they are now... [ Continue Reading ]
Let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from
the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner (d) is at an end, the
spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
(d) The Assyrians will oppress the Israelites but for a while.... [ Continue Reading ]
And in mercy shall the throne be established: (e) and he shall sit
upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking
judgment, and swiftly executing righteousness.
(e) Meaning, Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very proud: [even] of his
haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: [but] his (f) lies [shall]
not [be] so.
(f) Their vain confidence and proud bragging will deceive them,
(Jeremiah 48:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the
foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they are] (g)
stricken.
(g) For all your mourning, yet the city will be destroyed even to the
foundation.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: (h) the
lords of the nations have broken down her principal plants, they have
come [even] to (i) Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her
branches are extended, they have gone over the sea.
(h) That is, the Assyrians and other... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore I will (k) bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of
Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for
the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy (l) harvest is fallen.
(k) He shows that their plague was so great that it would have moved
any man to lament with th... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore my (m) heart shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my
inward parts for Kirharesh.
(m) For sorrow and compassion.... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the
high place, that he shall come to his (n) sanctuary to pray; but he
shall not prevail.
(n) They will use all means to seek help for their idols, and all in
vain: for Chemosh their great god will not be able to help them.... [ Continue Reading ]
But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, (o) Within three years, as the
years of an (p) hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be despised,
with all that great multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small
[and] feeble.
(o) He appointed a certain time to punish the enemies in.
(p) Who will observe... [ Continue Reading ]