Jeremiah 48:2 - Exposition

There shall be no more praise of Moab; rather, Moab's glory (or, glorying ) is no more (comp. Jeremiah 48:29 ). In Heshbon they have devised evil , etc. There is a word play in the Hebrew, which may be reproduced thus: "In Plot-house they plot evil against it" (so J. F. Smith's Ewald). Against it (literally, her ) means "against Moab." Heshbon was at the time an Ammonitish town (it had in days gone by been Amoritish, Numbers 21:26 ); see Jeremiah 49:3 ; but was on the border of Moab. O Madmen. There seems to be again a word play, which has been to some extent reproduced thus: "Thou shalt become still, O Still house." The name Madmen does not occur again, though an allusion to it has been fancied in Isaiah 25:10 , where the Hebrew for "dunghill" is madmenah.