Judgment on Moab
The pronouncement concerning aMoab:Certainly in a night bAr of Moab is devastated and ruined;Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.Is 11:14; 25:10; Jer 48:1; Ezek 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11Num 21:28
2 1The people have gone up to the 2temple and to aDibon, to the high places to weep.Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;Everyone’s head is bbald and every beard is cut off.Lit He has gone; i.e., Moab, meaning the people of MoabLit houseJer 48:18, 22Lev 21:5; Jer 48:373 In their streets they have put on asackcloth;bOn their housetops and in their public squaresEveryone is wailing, 1covercome with weeping.Lit going down in weepingJon 3:6-8Jer 48:38Is 22:44 aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;Therefore the 1armed men of Moab cry aloud;His soul trembles within him.Another reading is the loins ofNum 21:28; 32:3; Jer 48:345 My heart cries out for Moab;His fugitives are as far as aZoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,For they go up the bascent of Luhith weeping;Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress cover their collapse.Jer 48:34Jer 48:5Is 59:7; Jer 4:206 For the awaters of Nimrim are 1desolate.Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died,There is bno greenery.Lit desolationsIs 19:5-7; Jer 48:34Joel 1:10-12; 2:37 Therefore the aabundance which they have acquired and stored up,They carry it off over the brook of 1Arabim.Or the poplarsIs 30:6; Jer 48:368 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.9 For the waters of Dimon are full of 1blood;I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,A alion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.Heb dam (a wordplay)2 Kin 17:25; Jer 50:17