Jeremiah 48:36

Jeremiah 48:36 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir–heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
• New International Version (NIV)“So my heart laments for Moab like the music of a pipe; it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they acquired is gone.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore 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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore My heart shall wail like flutes for Moab, And like flutes My heart shall wail For the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the riches they have acquired have perished.

Context of Jeremiah 48:36

34From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. 35I will make an end of Moab,” declares the Lord, “the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods. “Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced. 37For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:36 word by word

עַל־כֵּ֞ן לִבִּ֤י לְמוֹאָב֙ כַּחֲלִלִ֣ים יֶהֱמֶ֔ה וְלִבִּי֙ אֶל־אַנְשֵׁ֣י קִֽיר־חֶ֔רֶשׂ כַּחֲלִילִ֖ים יֶהֱמֶ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֛ן יִתְרַ֥ת עָשָׂ֖ה אָבָֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Thereforeעַל‛al · uponH5921
• Thereforeכֵּןkên · soH3651
• heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• wailsהָמָהhâmâh · to roarH1993
• for Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
• like flutesחָלִילchâlîyl · fluteH2485
• for the menאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• of Kir-heresקִיר חֶרֶשׂqîyr chereώ qîyr chăreώeth · Kir-haresethH7025
• lostאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• the abundanceיִתְרָהyithrâh · abundanceH3502
• it producedעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: offerH6213

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:36

• Jeremiah 4:19My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart! My heart is pounding in me; I cannot be silent, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.
• Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.
• Isaiah 16:11Therefore my heart intones like a harp for Moab And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.
• Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious habitation; Where are Your zeal and Your mighty deeds? The stirrings of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained toward me.
• Jeremiah 48:31Therefore I will wail for Moab, Even for all Moab will I cry out; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
• Jeremiah 17:11As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool.”
• Proverbs 11:4Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.
• Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
• Proverbs 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.
• Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.
• Isaiah 15:7Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up They carry off over the brook of Arabim.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’
• James 5:2Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:36

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 36Like pipes - A wind instrument, used at funerals Matthew 9:23. The riches that he hath gotten - literally, “that which remains over, a superfluity.”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. 35-37The Moabites showed their sorrow and grief through traditional actions. They shaved their heads and beards, cut their hands, and wore burlap clothing (Jeremiah 41:5; Job 1:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3636. (See on Is 15:7; Is 16:11). like pipes--a plaintive instrument, therefore used at funerals and in general mourning. riches ... gotten--literally, the abundance ... that which is over and above the necessaries of life. Grotius translates, "They who have been left remaining shall perish"; they who have not been slain by the enemy shall perish by disease and famine.Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 48:36

• Kir-Haraseth
• Riches

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• Moab
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• Moab, Moabite
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• Fear
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• Music, Instrumental
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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