O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
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Gill's Exposition
We have heard the pride of Moab,.... Israel, and all the nations round about, had heard of this, and seen or heard of many instances of it; the thing was notorious; according to Kimchi, it is the…
Barnes' Notes
Dwell in the rock - See Jer 4:29. The sole chance of escape is refuge in inaccessible fastnesses. In the sides ... - On the further side “of the mouth of the pit.” The wild rock pigeon invariably…
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
dwell in the rock See on Jer 4:29.
in the sides of the hole's mouth The expression is peculiar and probably corrupt, but the figure is plain. See Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 215, for mention…
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