Jeremiah 48

Jeremiah 48:43-45

In that period, fixed by God for the punishment of the wicked Moabites, multitudes of ruinous disasters shall come upon them at once; and, if they escape from one, they shall be ruined by another.—For fear of the Chaldeans, and conscious of their own weakness, they shall flee to Heshbon their capital; but the Chaldeans having taken it, shall, with fire and sword, spread themselves through the whole country, and waste it, and bring down the power and glory of their proud nobles, rulers, and noisy boasters

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XLVIII.—God is the author and manager of all the awful judgments executed upon nations or persons. And with tremendous exactness, activity, and fury, his agents perform their work. Such as could not be shamed out of their idolatry by his word must be made ashamed of it by his rod, and be convinced by experience that their idols cannot help them. Long outward prosperity is a snare to men’s souls; and by it wicked men encourage themselves to more ungodliness. When men enjoy their good things here, they have none to expect in eternity. When God has borne long with sinful nations, they may expect calamities, surprising, terrible, lamentable, shameful, and complicated, but all of them righteous. And it is of infinite mercy if they issue not in everlasting destruction. Nor need presumptuous mockers of God and his people to wonder if their bands be made strong, or if their presumption become the prelude of their ruin