The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 48:26-35

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And what is Moab's crime? At an earlier point the prophet said that it was the callousness produced by long prosperity (Jeremiah 48:11); but here another sin is mentioned—Moab's haughty contempt of Jehovah.

"For this it deserves that its contempt should be thrown back upon itself, by its being made, like a drunken man, the scorn of all" (Ewald). The figure is, no doubt, a coarse one, but not unnatural in the oratory (we must put aside inspiration, which leaves the forms of speech untouched) of a rude people like the Jews.

It occurs not unfrequently elsewhere; see especially Isaiah 19:14; Habakkuk 2:15, Habakkuk 2:16; and, for milder examples of the figure, Jeremiah 13:13 and Jeremiah 13:25.

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