Jeremiah 48:3 | |
3. A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. | 3. Vox clamoris (id est, sonora) e Choronaim, vastitas et contritio magna. |
By naming many cities, he shews that the whole land was doomed to ruin, so that no corner of it would be exempt from destruction. For the Moabites might have suffered some loss without much injury had they been moderately chastised; but the Prophet shews that they would be so reduced by the power of Nebuchadnezzar, that ruin would extend to every part of the land. We now then see why this catalogue of the cities is given.
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