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- Jeremiah
- Chapter 48
- Verse 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.
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…
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.
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