Jérémie 48:39

39 Gémissez! Comme il est brisé! comme Moab tourne le dos dans sa honte! Moab sera la risée et l'effroi de tous ses alentours.

Jérémie 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.

Jérémie 48:39 In-Context

37 Car toute tête devient chauve, et toute barbe est coupée; sur toutes les mains il y a des incisions, et sur les reins, des sacs;

38 Sur les toits de Moab et dans ses places, tout est deuil; car j'ai brisé Moab comme un vase qui déplaît, dit l'Éternel.

39 Gémissez! Comme il est brisé! comme Moab tourne le dos dans sa honte! Moab sera la risée et l'effroi de tous ses alentours.

40 Car ainsi a dit l'Éternel: Voici, l'ennemi vole comme l'aigle, et il étend ses ailes sur Moab.

41 Kérijoth est prise, et les lieux forts sont saisis; et le cœur des héros de Moab sera, en ce jour-là, comme le cœur d'une femme en travail.