Jeremiah 48:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. ”

• Jeremiah 48:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Moab's pride is without foundation, doomed to a fall which the prophet laments; comparing the past glory with the far-reaching tendrils of a choice vine ( Jeremiah 48:32 ). There is no longer the joy...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  pride . arrogance. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia : six expressions, for the sake of emphasis.

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here the Prophet intimates by anticipation, that how much soever the Moabites might boast, they could not, by their boastings and their pride, so succeed that God should not appear against them...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. The pride of Moab - See on Isaiah 16:1 (note).

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. The pride of Moab - ( Isaiah 16:6-7 ). Moab was the...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  We have heard the pride of Moab... — It will be seen that here and in the next verse the very words of Isaiah ( Isaiah 16:6 ) are reproduced. The prophet seems to find a pleasure in going back to t...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  We have heard the pride of Moab ,.... Israel, and all the nations round about, had heard of this, and seen or heard of many instances of it; the thing was notorious; according to Kimchi, it is the p...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. Ver. 29. We have heard the pride of Moab. ] See Isaiah...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 48:29 ; Jeremiah 48:39 . We have heard the pride of Moab The several synonymous terms made use of in this verse are meant to express the great pride and insolence of Moab. Though some...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Judgment of Moab. B. C. 605.       14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  There is a passage, Isaiah 16:6 , &c., concerning Moab, very little differing from this: Isaiah lived some years before this prophet, who yet complaineth of them for the same sins, so as they...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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-...

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall

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• Jeremiah 48:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:37 ; Isaiah 16:6 ; Isaiah 2:11 ; Isaiah 2:12 ; James 4:6 ; Job 40:10-12 ; Luke 14:11 ; Proverbs 18:12 ; Proverbs 30:13 ; Proverbs 8:13 ; Psalms 138:6 ; Zephaniah 2:8-15

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