[There shall be] lamentation generally,.... Or, "all of it [is] mourning" (n); the whole country of Moab is in mourning; or all is full of mourning; all persons, places, and things, express nothing but mourning; go where you will, it is to be seen:
upon all the house tops of Moab, and in the streets thereof; the mourning, as it was general, it was public; it was seen by all, and everywhere; [See comments on Isaiah 15:3];
for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith the Lord; as an earthen vessel, which the potter does not like, and which is useless and unprofitable to any, and which he takes and dashes into pieces; into a thousand shivers, as the word (o) here signifies, and can never be put together again; or as a filthy unclean vessel a man cannot bear in his sight: Moab is by the Lord called his wash pot,
Psalms 60:8. The Moabites were vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction by their own this; and now the time of it was come.
(n) כלה מספד "totus luctus (est) vel omnia luctus (sunt)", Schmidt; "totus erit planctus", Junius Tremellius "per omnia erit planctus", Piscator. (o) שברתי "totalis confractio praedicitur", Schmidt.
[There shall be] lamentation generally,.... Or, "all of it [is] mourning" (n); the whole country of Moab is in mourning; or all is full of mourning; all persons, places, and things, express nothing but mourning; go where you will, it is to be seen:
upon all the house tops of Moab, and in the streets thereof; the mourning, as it was general, it was public; it was seen by all, and everywhere; [See comments on Isaiah 15:3];
for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure, saith the Lord; as an earthen vessel, which the potter does not like, and which is useless and unprofitable to any, and which he takes and dashes into pieces; into a thousand shivers, as the word (o) here signifies, and can never be put together again; or as a filthy unclean vessel a man cannot bear in his sight: Moab is by the Lord called his wash pot,
Psalms 60:8. The Moabites were vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction by their own this; and now the time of it was come.
(n) כלה מספד "totus luctus (est) vel omnia luctus (sunt)", Schmidt; "totus erit planctus", Junius Tremellius "per omnia erit planctus", Piscator. (o) שברתי "totalis confractio praedicitur", Schmidt.