Jeremiah 48:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

Make ye him drunken - (note, Jeremiah 13:12; Jeremiah 25:17). Intoxicate him with the cup of divine wrath, so as to be in helpless distraction.

For he magnified himself against the Lord - he boasted arrogantly against God's people, that whereas Israel was fallen Moab remained flourishing.

Moab ... shall wallow in his vomit - following up the image, of a drunken Man 1:-1 :e., shall be so afflicted by God's wrath as to disgorge all his past pride, riches, and vain-glory, and fall in his shameful abasement.

He also shall be in derision - he in disaster shall be an object of "derision" to us, as we in ours have been to him (Jeremiah 48:27). Retribution in kind.

Jeremiah 48:26

26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.