Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 48:36
36“That is why my heart is moaning like funeral flutes for Moab, and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. Thus the wealth he made is lost.
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
34“From the outcry of Heshbon to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they will raise their voice—from Zoar to Horonaim and a 3-year old heifer—for the Waters of Nimrim also will be waste. 35Moreover I will make an end in Moab”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“of the one offering on the high place and the one burning incense to his gods.” “That is why my heart is moaning like funeral flutes for Moab, and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. Thus the wealth he made is lost. 37For every head is bald, every beard clipped, on all the hands are gashes, and around the waist sackcloth. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in its squares— lamentation everywhere! For I have broken Moab like a jar In which no one delights” —it is a declaration of Adonai—
Read all of Jeremiah 48Jeremiah 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
Words taken from the KJV.
- Therefore mine heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
- shall soundהָמָהhâmâh · to roarH1993
- for Moabמוֹאָבmô'âb · MoabH4124
- like pipesחָלִילchâlîyl · fluteH2485
- for the menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
- of Kir–heresקִיר חֶרֶשׂqîyr chereώ qîyr chăreώeth · Kir-haresethH7025
- because the richesיִתְרָהyithrâh · abundanceH3502
- he hath gottenעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: offerH6213
- are perishedאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:36
- Jeremiah 4:19My stomach, my stomach! I writhe in anguish! The pain of my heart! My heart is pounding within me! I cannot keep silent because I have heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the battle-cry of war.
- Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out for Moab. Her fugitives are as far as Zoar as a three year old heifer, for by the ascent of Luhith they go up with weeping, for on the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of distress.
- Isaiah 16:11Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a lyre, and my inward part for Kir-heres.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see from Your holy, glorious, lofty abode. Where are Your zeal and mighty deeds? Are the yearnings of Your heart, Your compassions, withheld from me?
- Jeremiah 48:31Therefore I wail for Moab! Yes, I cry out for all Moab, for the men of Kir-heres I moan.
- Jeremiah 17:11As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches make no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
- Proverbs 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.
- Proverbs 18:11A rich person’s wealth is a strong city or like a high wall—in his imagination.
- Ecclesiastes 5:13or wealth lost in a bad investment, and when he fathers a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- Isaiah 15:7Therefore the riches they had gotten and whatever they have stored, they carry over the Wadi of Willows.
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’
- James 5:2Your riches have rotted and your clothes 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
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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
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