Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. THE WORD THAT THE LORD SPAKE AGAINST BABYLON] This is also a new head of discourse.
The prophecy contained in this and the following chapter was sent to the captives in Babylon in the fourth year of the reign of Zedekiah. They are very important; they predict the total destruction of the Babylonish empire, and the return of the Jews from their captivity. These chapters were probably composed, with several additions, out of the book that was then sent by Jeremiah to the captives by the hand of Seraiah. See chap. li. 59-64.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- Prophecies against Moab for pride and security. (Jer. 48:1-13) For carnal confidence and contempt of God. (Jer. 48:14-47)
Jer. 48:1-13. The Chaldeans are to destroy the Moabites. We should be thankful that we are required to seek the salvation of men's lives, an the salvation of their souls, not to shed their blood; but we shall be the more without excuse if we do this pleasant work deceitfully. The cities shall be laid in ruins, and the country shall be wasted. Ther will be great sorrow. There will be great hurry. If any could giv wings to sinners, still they could not fly out of the reach of Divin indignation. There are many who persist in unrepented iniquity, ye long enjoy outward prosperity. They had been long corrupt an unreformed, secure and sensual in prosperity. They have no changes of their peace and prosperity, therefore their hearts and lives ar unchanged, Ps. 55:19.
Jer. 48:14-47. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awake them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In readin this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to search into all the figures an expressions here used. Yet it is not perpetual destruction. The chapte ends with a promise of their return out of captivity in the latte days. Even with Moabites God will not contend for ever, nor be alway wroth. The Jews refer it to the days of the Messiah; then the captive of the Gentiles, under the yoke of sin and Satan, shall be brought bac by Divine grace, which shall make them free indeed _________________________________________________
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