Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:43 stands within the prophecy directed against Moab, one of the kingdoms surrounding Israel whose doom Jeremiah pronounces. It belongs specifically to the foretelling of Moab's fall before the conqueror Nebuchadnezzar. It warns the inhabitants of Moab that fear and danger and entrapment shall come upon them as judgment from the Lord.
Jeremiah 48:43 stands within the prophecy directed against Moab, one of the kingdoms surrounding Israel whose doom Jeremiah pronounces. It belongs specifically to the foretelling of Moab's fall before the conqueror Nebuchadnezzar. It warns the inhabitants of Moab that fear and danger and entrapment shall come upon them as judgment from the Lord.