Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 48:13

13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh , as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence .

It is a natural, or a penal shame which is here spoken of, we are naturally ashamed when we have reposed a great confidence in, and made great boasts of a thing, which when it comes to be tried, proveth of no use, but mischievous to us. Chemosh was their great Idol, in which the Moabites had great confidence, and of which they boasted, the Prophet tells them they should be ashamed of this Idol, or for this Idol;

as the Israelites, that is the Ten Tribes were ashamed of, or for the golden Calves, which Ieroboam set up at Dan and Bethel, which were the cause of ruine to those Tribes. Confidences in any thing but in God alone in a time of danger will bring both natural and penal shame.

Marginal references: 1 Kin. 12.29.