For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
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Gill's Exposition
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,.... Signifying hereby that they would not be in safety in their strongest and most fortified cities, which would be besieged by the…
Barnes' Notes
Was he found ... - Or, “was he found among thieves that so often as thou speakest of him” thou waggest thy head? - in contempt for a fallen enemy.
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
was he found among thieves?] i.e. Thou couldst not, O Moab, have treated him with more contempt, hadst thou caught him in the act of stealing. Cp. Jer 2:26.
waggest the head in scorn. Cp. Psa 64:8;…
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