Jeremiah 48:30

Therefore will I howl for Moab,.... The prophet, being as a man affected with the miseries of a people very wicked, and so deserving of them; though indeed by this he does not so much design to…

But it shall not be so - Most commentators translate, “I know, saith Jehovah, his arrogancy, and the emptiness of his boastings; they have worked emptiness.”

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…

I know his wrath The Lord corroborates the assertion of the prophet in the former verse.

that it is nought … nothing rather, as Dr. his boastings are untruth; they do untruth.