“ The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. ”
Near to come - Twenty-three years elapsed between the fourth year of Jehoiakim, when this prophecy was spoken, and its accomplishment by the invasion of Moab five years after the capture of Jerus...
Moab, hitherto undisturbed, is compared with wine left standing on its sediment ( Isaiah 25:6 ), and retaining its flavour and scent ( i.e. being self-centred and undisciplined; cf. the pride of...
hasteth fast. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 32:35 ). App-92.
Here the Prophet expresses something more, that the vengeance of which he spoke was near and hastening. It served to alleviate the sorrow of the faithful, when they understood that the Moabites...
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. The calamity of Moab is near - to the prophet's eye, though probably 23 years elapsed between the utterance of the proph...
Against Moab Moab, in recompense for its pride and security, and for its triumphing over Israel in the day of her calamity, shall itself be laid waste and taken captive: cp. the 'burden of Moab 'i...
(14-17) How say ye... — In the boast that follows we trace the characteristic pride of Moab. The prophet points to the fact that the pride is brought low. She, too, is subject, like other nations,...
CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 "Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah."- Jeremiah 48:42 "Chemosh said to me, Go, take Nebo agains...
The word of the Lord concerning Moab is a judgment, which nevertheless closes with a gleam of hope. The judgment is described, first, from the standpoint of the scourge. The widespread extent of it i...
It would swell our Commentary to a length indeed, to enter minutely into the several branches of the visitations here set forth. Indeed it would only when done, tend to confirm what hardly needs furt...
The calamity of Moab [is] near to come ,.... As it did come within live years after the destruction of Jerusalem, as observed on Jeremiah 48:12 ; out of Josephus: and his affliction hasteth fast...
The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. Ver. 16. The calamity of Moab is near to come. ] See on Jeremiah 48:15 .
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh , &c. They shall be disappointed in their expectations of succour from their tutelary idol, as the ten tribes have been in the trust they reposed in the calf...
The Judgment of Moab. B. C. 605. 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the...
Josephus tells us this destruction came upon the Moabites five years after the siege of Jerusalem; but if it were longer, we must consider that he who speaketh is that God to whom a thousand years is...
D). Prophecy Against Moab ( Jeremiah 48:1-47 ). Whilst the Philistines were a constant trouble to Israel/Judah from the west, mainly troubling western Israel/Judah, eastern Israel/Judah, especiall...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter .—Naegelsbach suggests, with ample justification, that “this prophecy certainly belongs to the time of Jehoiakim, and before the fourth y...
Jeremiah 48:1 . Against Moab, saith the Lord. Isaiah had prophesied of the devastation of Moab by Salmaneser: chap. 15, 16. Jeremiah here speaks of the terrible conquest of the country by Nebuchad...
EXPOSITION This prophecy is so full of repetitions that the question has naturally arisen whether the most prominent of these may not be due to interpolation. For instance: 1 . Jeremiah 48:29-...
The calamity of Moab is near to come, so that destruction will soon overtake him, and his affliction hasteth fast, his misfortune coming on apace, with great speed.
2 Peter 2:3 ; Deuteronomy 32:35 ; Ezekiel 12:23 ; Ezekiel 12:28 ; Isaiah 13:22 ; Isaiah 16:13 ; Isaiah 16:14 ; Jeremiah 1:12
Is near — Josephus tells us this destruction came upon the Moabites five years after the siege of Jerusalem.