Jeremiah 48:8

8 The destroyer will come against every town; not one town will escape. The valley will be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the Lord has said.

Jeremiah 48:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 48:8

And the spoiler shall come upon every city
That is, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and his army. The Targum is, the spoilers, who came against and took every city of Moab, and wasted them. Josephus ^F14 makes particular mention of Nebuchadnezzar subduing the Ammonites and Moabites: and no city shall escape;
the spoiler, and destruction by him: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the
Lord hath spoken;
not only the cities, and the inhabitants of them; but the inhabitants of the valleys and plains, as the Targum paraphrases it, should be destroyed; and also the corn that grew upon them, and the flocks and herds that grazed there, exactly as the Lord had foretold.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.

Jeremiah 48:8 In-Context

6 Run! Run for your lives! Go like a bush being blown through the desert.

7 You trust in the things you do and in your wealth, so you also will be captured. and his priests and officers with him.

8 The destroyer will come against every town; not one town will escape. The valley will be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the Lord has said.

9 Give wings to Moab, because she will surely leave her land. Moab's towns will become empty, with no one to live in them.

10 A curse will be on anyone who doesn't do what the Lord says, and a curse will be on anyone who holds back his sword from killing.