Moab is My Wash-Pot
Psalm 60:8-10
Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.


Implying that Moab should be reduced to slavery, it being the business of a slave to present the wash-hand basin to his master. With the Greeks, πλύνειν τινὰ, to wash down any one, was a slang term, signifying to ridicule, abuse, or beat; hence we have the word washpot applied to the subject of such treatment. "You don't appear to be in your right sense, who make a washpot of me in the presence of many men." — Aristophanes.

(Thomas S. Millington.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

WEB: Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia."




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