In this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest. The protecting hand of God will ever be stretched out over the spiritual Zion—the Church of the Redeemed—to defend it and keep it safe throughout eternity.
Moab shall be trodden down. Various reasons have been given for the selection of Moab to represent the enemies of the redeemed. Perhaps, as the Moabites were, on the whole, the bitterest of all the adversaries of the Jews (see 2 Kings 24:2; Ezekiel 25:8-11), they are regarded as the fittest representatives of the human adversaries of God.
For the dung-hill; rather, in the water of a dung-pit. The image is, perhaps, selected with conscious reference to Psalms 83:1-18; where the psalmist prays that the "children of Lot" and their helpers may become "as the dung of the earth" (Psalms 83:10).