Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 48:27

27 For was not Israel a derision to thee ? was he found among thieves ? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy .

It is an ill thing to mock at the miseries of others especially such as we have some relation to, the Moabites were descended from Lot who was nearly related to Abraham the father of the Iews, and ought not to have mocked at them, but to have pitied their neighbours and kindred, they either mocked at the ten Tribes when they were carried into Captivity by Salmanasar or at Iudah captivated by the King of Babylon. God threatneth the Ammonites, Ezek. 25.6. and the Edomites by Obadiah for the same misdemeanour.

Why didst thou deal by Israel as men deal by thieves, when they are brought to shame? ought not he to have been by thee accounted in a better rank then that of thieves?

Instead of compassionating the Iews in their Calamity, thou never spakest of them but with joy and triumph. Others make a quite other sense, viz. For those words against him, thou thy self shalt wander. But the learned Author of the English Annotations ▪ observes well, that the word in the form here used will not so well bear it, though the Verb doth in its primary sense signifie to wander.

Marginal references: Zeph. 2.8.; Or, thou mov [illegible: 2 letters]st thy self.