Jeremías 48:39

39 ¡Cómo ha sido destrozado! ¡Cómo ha gemido! ¡Cómo ha vuelto la espalda Moab avergonzado! Moab será, pues, objeto de burla y de terror para todos los que lo rodean.

Jeremías 48:39 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 48:39

They shall howl, [saying], how is it broken down?
&c.] Or, "how is it broken" or "thrown into consternation ^F16? they howl"; that is, they howl out these words, or, while they are howling, say, how is Kirheres or Moab broken all to pieces; their strength, power, and glory; their cities, and their mighty men; and are in the utmost fright and confusion? Jarchi takes it to be an imperative, and paraphrases it,

``howl ye over her ^F17, and say, how is it broken!''

Kimchi says it may be taken either as in the past or in the imperative; how hath Moab turned the back with shame?
not being able to look their enemies in the face, but obliged to flee before them; so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him;
a derision to some, to their enemies, as Israel had been to them, and so they are paid in their own coin; and a consternation to others, their friends, who would fear sharing the same fate, at the hands of the Chaldeans.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (htx Kya) "quomodo consternata est", Piscator, Schmidt.
F17 (wlylyh) "ululate", Munster, Piscator; "ejulate", Junius & Tremellius.

Jeremías 48:39 In-Context

37 Porque toda cabeza está rapada y toda barba rasurada; en todas las manos hay sajaduras y sobre los lomos cilicio.

38 En todas las terrazas de Moab y en sus calles todo es lamentación, porque he quebrado a Moab como a vaso indeseable declara el SEÑOR.

39 ¡Cómo ha sido destrozado! ¡Cómo ha gemido! ¡Cómo ha vuelto la espalda Moab avergonzado! Moab será, pues, objeto de burla y de terror para todos los que lo rodean.

40 Porque así dice el SEÑOR: He aquí, como águila volará veloz, y extenderá sus alas contra Moab.

41 Ha sido tomada Queriot y las fortalezas han sido ocupadas; será el corazón de los valientes de Moab en aquel día como el corazón de una mujer de parto.