Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 48:31

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31. I will cry . . . for . . . Moab —Not that it deserves pity, but the prophet's "crying" for it vividly represents the greatness of the calamity. Kir-heres —Kir-hareseth, in Isaiah 16:7 ; see on Isaiah 16:7- : . It means "the city of potters," or else "the city of the sun" [GROTIUS]. Here "the men of Kir-heres" are substituted for "the foundations of Kir-hareseth," in Isaiah 16:7- : . The change answers probably to the different bearing of the disaster under Nebuchadnezzar, as compared with that former one under Shalmaneser. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-32" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-48-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-48-31

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological