Jeremiah 48:37 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped:j upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. ”

• Jeremiah 48:37 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Cuttings - Compare Jeremiah 16:6 , and marginal references.

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - 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 48:37 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  every head. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one margin), read "For upon every head". bald . baldness. The symbol of mourning. Compare Jeremiah 47:5 . upon the loins. Some codi...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet describes at large a very great mourning. They were wont in great sorrow to pull off their hair, to shave their beard, and to put on sackcloth, or to gird it round their loins, and...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. For every head shall be bald - These, as we have seen before, were signs...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. Every head shall be bald - (note, Jeremiah 47:5 , "Baldness is come...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped ,.... Men, in times of mourning, used to pluck off the hairs of their head till they made them bald, and shaved their beards; which, as Kimchi...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands [shall be] cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. Ver. 37. For every head shall be bald. ] This was the doings among th...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  These phrases are expounded in the beginning of the following verse, There shall be lamentation generally upon all the house-tops of Moab. Shaving of the hair, and clipping the beards, and cutting th...

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - 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 48:37 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Lamentation over Moab

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• Jeremiah 48:37 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 18:28 ; 1 Kings 21:27 ; 2 Kings 6:30 ; Amos 8:10 ; Ezekiel 27:31 ; Ezekiel 7:18 ; Genesis 37:29 ; Genesis 37:34 ; Isaiah 15:2 ; Isaiah 15:3 ; Isaiah 20:2 ; Isaiah 3:24 ; Isaiah 3...

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