Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
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Gill's Exposition
O inhabitant of Aroer,.... Another city that belonged to Moab, situated on the border of it towards Ammon, near the river Arnon; See Gill on Isa 17:2;
stand by the way, and espy; get to the road…
Barnes' Notes
Sit in thirst - Jeremiah draws a picture of the conquered inhabitants, collected outside the walls, waiting for their captors to march them away to the slave mart. The enemy occupied with plundering…
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a…
Cambridge Bible
thou daughter that dwellest(mg. art seated) in Dibon meaning, inhabitants of Dibon See on Jer 4:11.
Dibon now Diban(the "Moabite stone" was found there in 1868) stands on two hills. Hence the…
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