Jeremiás 49:3

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

Ordíts Hesbon, mert elpusztíttatott Hái! Kiáltsatok Rabbáh leányai, öltözzetek gyászba, sírjatok és futkossatok a szorosokon, mert Milkom a fogságba megy, papjai és fejedelmei is vele együtt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Howl: Jeremiah 48:20, Jeremiah 51:8, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 14:31, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 16:7, Isaiah 23:1, Isaiah 23:6, James 5:1

gird: Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 48:37, Isaiah 32:11, Isaiah 32:12

run: Job 30:3-7, Isaiah 15:2

their king: or, Melcom, Jeremiah 49:1, 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 23:13, Milcom, Zephaniah 1:5, Malcham

shall go: Jeremiah 46:25, Jeremiah 48:7, Amos 1:15

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 20:1 - Rabbah Isaiah 3:24 - a girding

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howl, O Heshbon,.... Which was a city of Moab, though it formerly belonged to the Amorites; see Jeremiah 48:2; it was upon the border of Ammon, and near to Ai, now destroyed; and therefore is called upon to howl and lament, because its destruction also was near at hand, and might be expected; hence Kimchi gathers, that the Ammonites were destroyed before the Moabites: but some have thought that Heshbon was a double city, divided by a river, which ran through it; and that that city which was on one side of the river belonged to Moab, and that on the other side to Ammon:

for Ai is spoiled; not that which was near Jericho in the land of Canaan, but a city in the land of Ammon, thought to be the Gaia of Ptolemy; this seems to be the first city in the country of Ammon that Nebuchadnezzar would lay waste:

cry, ye daughters of Rabbah; the royal city before mentioned;

Jeremiah 48:2- :; either the inhabitants of it, particularly the women, especially the younger women, who would be in the utmost distress on hearing the enemy was so near them, and what had befallen Ai; or the villages about Rabbah, as Kimchi interprets it; that is, as the Targum,

"the inhabitants of the villages of Rabbah:''

gird ye with sackcloth; as a token of calamity and mourning for it, as was usual:

lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; which Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, understand of the enclosures or fences of villages, like those of gardens, fields, and folds, in distinction from walls of cities, and fortified places; but rather it signifies the hedges in the fields, whither, being drove from their habitations, they would seek unto for shelter, and run about among them for safety, lamenting their unhappy case:

for their king shall go into captivity; be taken and carried captive; either their principal governor; or rather Milcom their god, since it follows:

[and] his priests and his princes together; both such as offered sacrifices to him, and attended on and supported his worship: the same is said of Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, Jeremiah 48:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ai - Not the town on the west of the Jordan Joshua 7:2; a place not mentioned elsewhere. For Ai some read Ar.

Hedges - Fields were not divided by hedges until recent times; the term probably means the walls which enclose the vineyards Numbers 22:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 49:3. Run to and fro by the hedges — It is supposed that this may refer to the women making lamentations for the dead, that were in general buried by the walls of their gardens; but others think that it refers to the smaller cities or villages, called here the daughters of Rabbah, the metropolis; the inhabitants of which are exhorted to seek safety somewhere else, as none can be expected from them, now that the enemy is at hand.