Jeremiah 48:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities The walls of which will not be sufficient to defend you from the sword of the enemy. And dwell in the rock Hide yourselves in the rocks and caverns of your country. And be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth That is, on the edge of the precipice, as Blaney interprets the expression, or the brink of destruction. The Moabites are here, therefore, “exhorted to retire for safety to those places where the apprehensions of danger would secure them from the enemy's pursuit. That doves build in the clefts, or natural hollows of rocks, see Song of Solomon 2:14. Dr. Shaw, in his Travle, p. 162, fol., mentions a city on the African coast, called Hamanet, from the number of wild pigeons that are bred in the cliffs of the adjacent mountains.”