This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Ver. 10. This shall they have for their pride] Moabites were as much noted for their pride as now the Spaniards are; and are therefore here devoted to destruction. Pride goeth before a fall, &c. A bulging wall stands not long; a joint luxated and swelled, till that be down cannot be set. God resisteth the proud, 1 Peter 5:5, he bringeth those ungodly down to the ground, Psalms 147:6 .
Because they have reproached, &c.] And all this out of the pride of their hearts, which breaketh out, as a master pox, in their body; so that the pride of Moab testifieth to his face, and it shall be to him an abomination of desolation.