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Jeremiah 48:37

Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

There shall be lamentation generally,.... Or, "all of it is mourning" (n); the whole country of Moab is in mourning; or all is full of mourning; all persons, places, and things, express nothing but…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Cuttings - Compare Jer 16:6, and marginal references.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 48:14-47

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Jeremiah 48:37-38

Cp. Isa 15:2 f. From "for I have broken" (Jer 48:48) to "upon Moab" (Jer 48:48) is either wholly or in a large part the work of a supplementer.