This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
This shall they have for their pride This calamity shall come upon their land, the land of the Moabites and Ammonites, for their pride, which often goes before a fall; and has frequently been the…
Barnes' Notes
This shall they have for their pride - Literally, “This to them instead of their pride.” Contempt and shame shall be the residue of the proud man; the exaltation shall be gone, and all which they…
Adam Clarke
Because they have reproached - See on Zep 2:8 (note).
The Moabites and Ammonites were both of the posterity of Lot; their countries joined, and, both adjoining to Israel, they are here put together in the prophecy against them.
I. They are both charged…
Cambridge Bible
Comp. Zep 2:2; Isa 16:6; Jer 48:29. In the last clause Sept. reads: magnified themselves against the Lord of hosts, omitting people. Jer 48:26; Jer 48:42.
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