Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 48:33
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.
33. This v. is taken with modifications from Isa 16:10.
And gladness Moab ] probably genuine. From “and I have caused” to the end of Jer 48:34 seems again an expansion.
none shall tread with shouting ] read rather, with Isaiah, no treader shall tread.
the shouting shall be no shouting ] The Hebrew noun is used for both the joyous shout of the grape-treaders and for a battle-cry. Thus the clause means that the former shall be transformed into the latter. Cp. Jer 25:30.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Winepresses – Rather, wine-vats, into which the wine runs from the presses.
Their shouting shall be no shouting – The vintage shout is – silence. For the vines have been destroyed, and desolation reigns where once was the joyful cry of those who tread the grapes.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The time of harvest and vintage being times when the husbandmen were wont to reap the fruit of all their labours the preceding year, were times of great joy ordinarily; but the prophet foretells them of a year when there should be no such rejoicing, for they should have no wine from the winepresses, there should be no shouting as used to be in the time of harvest and of vintage.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
33. the plentiful fieldrather,”Carmel”: as the parallel “land of Moab”requires, though in Isa 16:10,it is “the plentiful field.” Joy is taken away as from thenearer regions (Canaan and Palestine), so from the farther “landof Moab”; what has happened to Judah shall befall Moab, too(Jer 48:26; Jer 48:27)[MAURER]. However, Moabalone seems to be spoken of here; nor does the parallelism forbid”plentiful field” answering to “Moab.” EnglishVersion is therefore better.
shoutingrepeated; asat the conclusion of the vintage, men sing over and over again thesame cry of joy. A shouting shall be heard, but not the joyousshouting of laborers treading the grapes, but the terrible battle cryof the foe.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field,…. Or, from Carmel k; not Mount Carmel in the land of Israel; for the prophecy is of Moab; though that reached to Sibmah; but here it signifies any fruitful place, like Carmel, where were good pasturage, corn, and fruit bearing trees, which produced great plenty of good things, and caused joy to the owners of them: but now all being destroyed by the enemy, joy and gladness would cease:
and from the land of Moab; from all parts of it, where there had used to be plenty, and so joy:
and I have caused wine to fail from the wine presses: there being no grapes to put into them, or men to tread them, were there any; or, if put in and trodden, not the owners, but the enemy, should have the wine; so that it should fail from the Moabites; they should be never the better for it. These are the words of the Lord, who has the disposal of the fruits of the earth:
none shall tread with shouting; as treaders in the wine press used to do, to encourage one another, and make their labour more easy, and the time to pass on in it more pleasantly; but now there should neither be treading nor shouting; see Isa 16:10;
[their] shouting [shall be] no shouting; not a shouting of joy, as used to be when they trod out the wine; but a cry of mourning and lamentation, because of the sword of the enemy.
k “de Carmelo”, V. L. “de Charmel”, Montanus; “ex Carmelo”, Schmidt.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He pursues the same metaphor or comparison; for he says that all places would be laid waste and desolate, which before had been valuable and highly regarded on account of their fruitfulness. Cease then shall all rejoicing from the land of Moab, however fruitful it might have been. And then he adds, I will make the wine to cease from the presses; that is, no one shall press the grapes, that from them the wine may flow. And he adds, הידד הידד, eidad, eidad, shouting, shouting, for there will be no shouting Some render הידד, eidad, “ signal, ” celeuma, ( vel celeusma,) a Greek word, but used also in Latin: κέλευμα is said by the Greeks to be the shouting of sailors, especially when they drive to the shore; they then rouse one another in rowing, and also congratulate one another, because they are nigh to land; for to see the harbor is a cause of special joy to sailors, as though it were a restoration to life and safety. But this word κέλευμα is applied to other things, as it may be said that reapers sing a celeusma when they finish their work. The vine-dressers had also their songs; and they were sung by heathen nations, as Virgil says. “Now the worn-out vine-dresser sings at the extreme rows of vines.” (18) By extreme rows or ranks he seems to mean the extreme parts of the vines; for extreme rows ( antes) are properly prominences or overhanging stones. Now when they had come to the end, they sang and congratulated themselves as to the vintage. It was then a common custom among all nations.
The Prophet, now alluding to this, says, “They who shall tread in the winepress shall not be as usual joyful, so as to have their shouting, shouting, הידד הידד, eidad, eidad. ” He repeats the word, because men greatly exult at the vintage, and are excessive in their rejoicings. This is the reason why the Prophet mentions the word twice. He then adds, there shall be no shouting, לא הידד, la eidad, because there would be no vineyards. Isaiah uses other expressions, but the meaning is the same. It now follows, —
(18) Jam canit extremos effœtus vinitor antes. — Geor. 2:417.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(33) None shall tread with shouting.The words bring before us the vintage-song of those who trod out the grapes (Jer. 25:30; Isa. 16:10). Of this the prophet says, in a form which reminds us of the (gifts that are no gifts) of Soph. Aias. 674, that it shall be no shouting, i.e., that it shall be turned to wailing and lamentation, or the shout and tumult of battle shall have taken its place.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Jer 48:33. Their shouting shall be no shouting The shouting will not be a shouting; or will be a very different shouting.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Jer 48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; [their] shouting [shall be] no shouting.
Ver. 33. And joy and gladness is taken. ] See Isa 16:10 .
Their shouting shall be no shouting.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wine. Hebrew. yayin. App-27.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Jer 48:33-39
Jer 48:33-39
And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting. From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate. Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth incense to his gods. Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah. How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
The shouting shall be no shouting…
(Jer 48:33 b). The vast wine industry, upon which much of Moab’s prosperity depended will be totally destroyed. The workers who treaded out the grapes in the wine-presses continually celebrated their activity by shoutings and songs.
The cry of the distressed population will reach all the way from Zoar, at the southwest corner of the Dead Sea to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah.
The last two place names here are not too positively identified, but Keil placed both of them in southern Moab. The general meaning is surely clear enough. Grief and distress are everywhere.
My heart soundeth for Moab like pipes…
(Jer 48:36). This is a reference to the prophet’s own grief for the terrible, distress prophesied against Moab. We have a little later in the chapter a dramatic description of how that grief affected all the people. This grief of Jeremiah is significant. He did not prophesy doom because he received any pleasure from it, but because it was his duty to warn the people.
Every head bald. every beard clipped … sackcloth worn by all … mourning on all the housetops … mourning in all the streets …..
(Jer 48:36-38). What a pitiful picture of what Nebuchadnezzar’s brutal, licentious, devastating armies did to the peoples of the world. Here is the pride and ruthless ambition of men raging out of control.
Bitter Lamentation Jer 48:31-38
Because Moab is doomed to destruction, Jeremiah takes up a lamentation over that land. The lament expresses once more the prophets sincere sympathy with Moab. The weeping prophet was not only concerned with the destruction of his own people, he was deeply moved by the thought that others would suffer too. Kir-heres (Jer 48:31) is the chief fortress of southern Moab and in mourning the loss of that city the prophet suggests that the conquest of Moab is complete. The prophets sorrow is deeper than that of the city of Jazer located fifteen miles north of Heshbon. Jeremiah is distressed to think that the luxuriant vineyards of Sibmah (located near Heshbon) which stretch as far as the Dead Sea and the sea of Jazer (location unknown) must now be destroyed. These famous and beautiful vineyards will be hopelessly ruined, ruthlessly trampled down and destroyed by the enemy, together with the summer fruits (Jer 48:32). Joy and gladness, normally characteristic of that plentiful land, shall disappear. Since the vineyards will be destroyed, the winepresses or winevats will contain no wine. The shouting which shall be heard in the land will not be the joyous shoutings of the grape treaders, but the battle shout of the invading soldiers (Jer 48:33). Throughout the land a cry of woe is heard (Jer 48:34). The King James a heifer of three years old is probably a proper name, Eglatshelishliah, as in the ASV. The Hebrew language has no capital letters and it is not always possible to distinguish between common and proper nouns. Since the whole land of Moab is depopulated no longer will sacrifice be offered at the shrines, nor incense burned before the idols (Jer 48:35).
In Jer 48:36 Jeremiah again expresses his personal sorrow over the destruction of Moab. He compares the agony of his heart to the pipes or flutes whose monotonous and mournful sounds filled the air during funeral services. The prophet weeps because the riches, the abundance of Moab, have perished (Jer 48:36). Everywhere he looks the prophet sees signs of mourning: bald heads, clipped beards, cuttings upon the body, sackcloth about the loins (Jer 48:37). On every roof and in every street the lamentation can be heard. The Lord, the God of Israel has broken Moab like a vessel which no longer pleases Him (Jer 48:38). What intense agony in the land of Moab and in the heart of a Judean prophet!
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
joy: Jer 25:9, Jer 25:10, Isa 9:3, Isa 16:9, Isa 24:7-12, Isa 32:9-14, Joe 1:12, Joe 1:16, Rev 18:22, Rev 18:23
caused: Isa 5:10, Isa 7:23, Isa 16:10, Joe 1:5, Joe 1:12, Joe 1:13, Hag 2:16
Reciprocal: Psa 4:7 – the time Psa 65:13 – they shout Isa 24:11 – all joy Jer 25:30 – give Joe 1:10 – the new Amo 5:17 – in
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 48:33. Grape cultivation was one of the principal industries of the lands of the Bible. For that reason an interference with that business would he considered a serious thing for the country: such a misfortune was to befall the land of Moab.