43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
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Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. …
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. …
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-47)The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it, but to affect us with the calamitous state of human life, which is liable to s…
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