Jeremiah 48:31

Jeremiah 48:31 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir–heres.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore I wail over Moab, for all Moab I cry out, I moan for the people of Kir Hareseth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore I will wail for Moab, And I will cry out for all Moab; I will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
• New Living Translation (NLT)So now I wail for Moab; yes, I will mourn for Moab. My heart is broken for the men of Kir-hareseth.

Context of Jeremiah 48:31

29We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30I know his insolence, declares the Lord; his boasts are false, his deeds are false. Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn. 32More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen. 33Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.

Jeremiah 48:31 word by word

עַל־כֵּן֙ עַל־מוֹאָ֣ב אֲיֵלִ֔יל וּלְמוֹאָ֥ב כֻּלֹּ֖ה אֶזְעָ֑ק אֶל־אַנְשֵׁ֥י קִֽיר־חֶ֖רֶשׂ יֶהְגֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore will I howlיָלַלyâlal · to wailH3213
• for Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
• and I will cry outזָעַקzâ‛aq · to cry outH2199
• shall mournהָגָהhâgâh · to mutterH1897
• for the menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• of Kir–heresקִיר חֶרֶשׂqîyr chereώ qîyr chăreώeth · Kir-haresethH7025

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:31

• Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;
• Isaiah 16:7Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.
• Jeremiah 48:36Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.
• 2 Kings 3:25And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:31

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 31Mine heart … - Rather, “there shall be mourning for” etc.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-47Verses 14-47 . The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 31The Lord punished Moab and other nations for their sins, but this made him mourn. Kir-hareseth was the capital city of Moab.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3131. I will cry ... for ... Moab--Not that it deserves pity, but the prophet's "crying" for it vividly represents the greatness of the calamity. Kir-heres--Kir-hareseth, in Is 16:7; see on Is 16:7. It means "the city of potters," or else "the city of the sun" [Grotius]. Here "the men of Kir-heres" are substituted for "the foundations of Kir-hareseth," in Is 16:7. The change answers probably to the different bearing of the disaster under Nebuchadnezzar, as…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 48

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings