43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
43 Terror and pit and snare await you, you people of Moab," declares the Lord.
43 Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the Lord.
43 "Terror and pit and trap are what you have facing you, Moab." God's Decree.
43 Fear and the pit and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab," says the Lord.
43 "Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, OÂ Moab," says the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 48:43
Commentary on Jeremiah 48:14-47
(Read Jeremiah 48:14-47)
The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to search into all the figures and expressions here used. Yet it is not perpetual destruction. The chapter ends with a promise of their return out of captivity in the latter days. Even with Moabites God will not contend for ever, nor be always wroth. The Jews refer it to the days of the Messiah; then the captives of the Gentiles, under the yoke of sin and Satan, shall be brought back by Divine grace, which shall make them free indeed.