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The wealth they acquired is gone. <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/48.htm">New Living Translation</a> My heart moans like a flute for Moab and Kir-hareseth, for all their wealth has disappeared. <a href="/esv/jeremiah/48.htm">English Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/48.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished. <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/48.htm">King James Bible</a> Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/48.htm">New King James Version</a> 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. <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/48.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “Therefore My heart makes a sound like flutes for Moab; My heart also makes a sound like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced. <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/48.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Therefore 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. <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/48.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “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. <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/48.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Therefore My heart moans for Moab like flutes; My heart also moans like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced. <a href="/amp/jeremiah/48.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “Therefore My heart moans and sighs for Moab like flutes, and My heart moans and sighs like flutes for the men of Kir-heres (Kir-hareseth); therefore [the remnant of] the abundant riches they gained has perished. <a href="/csb/jeremiah/48.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore, my heart moans like flutes for Moab, and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished. <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/48.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Therefore, My heart moans like flutes for Moab, and My heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished. <a href="/asv/jeremiah/48.htm">American Standard Version</a> Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. <a href="/cev/jeremiah/48.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> In my heart I moan for Moab, like a funeral song played on a flute. I mourn for the people of the town of Kir-Heres, because their wealth is gone. * <a href="/erv/jeremiah/48.htm">English Revised Version</a> Therefore mine heart soundeth for Moab like pipes, and mine heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/48.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "That is why I moan for Moab like a flute. I sound like a flute for the people of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they gained has disappeared. <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/48.htm">Good News Translation</a> "So my heart mourns for Moab and for the people of Kir Heres, like someone playing a funeral song on a flute, because everything they owned is gone. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/48.htm">International Standard Version</a> Therefore my heart wails for Moab like flutes and my heart wails for the men of Kir-heres like flutes. Therefore they'll lose the abundance they produced. <a href="/msb/jeremiah/48.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished. <a href="/net/jeremiah/48.htm">NET Bible</a> So my heart moans for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. Yes, like a flute playing a funeral song, my heart moans for the people of Kir Heres. For the wealth they have gained will perish. <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/48.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished. <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/48.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten have perished. <a href="/web/jeremiah/48.htm">World English Bible</a> Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes, and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/48.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Therefore My heart sounds as pipes for Moab, "" And My heart sounds as pipes for men of Kir-Heres, "" Therefore the abundance he made perished. <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/48.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Therefore my heart for Moab as pipes doth sound, And my heart for men of Kir-Heres As pipes doth sound, Therefore the abundance he made did perish. <a href="/slt/jeremiah/48.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For this, my heart shall sound for Moab as pipes, and my heart shall sound for the men of Kirheres as pipes: for the riches he made perished.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/48.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes: and my heart a sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath done more than he could, therefore they have perished. <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/48.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Because of this, my heart will resound for Moab, like the pipes, and my heart will make a sound like the pipes for the men on the brick wall. For he has done more than he was able, yet still they have perished. <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/48.htm">New American Bible</a> Hence my heart wails like a flute for Moab; my heart wails like a flute for the people of Kir-heres: the wealth they accumulated has perished. <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/48.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the people of Kir-heres; for the riches they gained have perished.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/48.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Therefore, my heart shall sound for Moab like a harp because they have done evil and are perished. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/48.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because of this, my heart shall speak for Moab like a harp, because they have done evil and were destroyed<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/48.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Therefore my heart moaneth for Moab Like pipes, and my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; Therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. <a href="/sep/jeremiah/48.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what every man has gained has perished from him. <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=14568" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/48.htm">The Judgment on Moab</a> …35In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods. 36<a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">Therefore</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: kên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lib·bî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">My heart</a> <a href="/hebrew/1993.htm" title="1993: ye·hĕ·meh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to make a loud sound like Engl. hum); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor.">laments</a> <a href="/hebrew/2485.htm" title="2485: ka·ḥă·li·lîm (Prep-k, Art:: N-mp) -- Flute, pipe. From chalal; a flute.">like a flute</a> <a href="/hebrew/4124.htm" title="4124: lə·mō·w·’āḇ (Prep-l:: N-proper-fs) -- A son of Lot, also his desc. and the territory where they settled. ">for Moab;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: wə·lib·bî (Conj-w:: N-msc:: 1cs) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">it</a> <a href="/hebrew/1993.htm" title="1993: ye·hĕ·meh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to make a loud sound like Engl. hum); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor.">laments</a> <a href="/hebrew/2485.htm" title="2485: ka·ḥă·lî·lîm (Prep-k, Art:: N-mp) -- Flute, pipe. From chalal; a flute.">like a flute</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/582.htm" title="582: ’an·šê (N-mpc) -- Man, mankind. From 'anash; properly, a mortal; hence, a man in general.">the men</a> <a href="/hebrew/7025.htm" title="7025: qîr-Or Qiyr Chareseth; from qiyr and cheres; fortress of earthenware; Kir-Cheres or Kir-Chareseth, a place in Moab."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7025.htm" title="7025: ḥe·reś (N-proper-fs) -- Or Qiyr Chareseth; from qiyr and cheres; fortress of earthenware; Kir-Cheres or Kir-Chareseth, a place in Moab.">of Kir-heres,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: kên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3502.htm" title="3502: yiṯ·raṯ (N-fsc) -- Abundance, riches. Feminine of yether; properly, excellence, i.e. wealth.">the wealth</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">they acquired</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: ’ā·ḇā·ḏū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">has perished.</a> 37For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Isaiah 15:5</a> My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim. <a href="/isaiah/16-9.htm">Isaiah 16:9-11</a> So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest. / Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering. / Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres. <a href="/ezekiel/27-31.htm">Ezekiel 27:31</a> They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning. <a href="/isaiah/21-12.htm">Isaiah 21:12</a> The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.” <a href="/isaiah/22-4.htm">Isaiah 22:4</a> Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.” <a href="/lamentations/1-16.htm">Lamentations 1:16</a> For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed. <a href="/isaiah/15-2.htm">Isaiah 15:2-3</a> Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. / In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. <a href="/ezekiel/32-18.htm">Ezekiel 32:18</a> “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit: <a href="/isaiah/16-7.htm">Isaiah 16:7</a> Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken. <a href="/ezekiel/27-30.htm">Ezekiel 27:30</a> They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes. <a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7-9</a> The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. <a href="/isaiah/24-11.htm">Isaiah 24:11</a> In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. <a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12</a> Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, <a href="/ezekiel/27-35.htm">Ezekiel 27:35</a> All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted. <a href="/revelation/18-11.htm">Revelation 18:11</a> And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he has gotten are perished.mine heart<a href="/jeremiah/4-19.htm">Jeremiah 4:19</a> My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.<a href="/isaiah/15-5.htm">Isaiah 15:5</a> My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.<a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Isaiah 16:11</a> Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.Kir-heres<a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Jeremiah 48:31</a> Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.the riches<a href="/jeremiah/17-11.htm">Jeremiah 17:11</a> As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.<a href="/proverbs/11-4.htm">Proverbs 11:4</a> Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.<a href="/proverbs/13-22.htm">Proverbs 13:22</a> A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/40-12.htm">Abundance</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-7.htm">Acquired</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm">Flute</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm">Flutes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-20.htm">Gained</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-4.htm">Gotten</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Hareseth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Heres</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Kir</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Kirheres</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Kir-Heres</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm">Kir-He'res</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-21.htm">Lost</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm">Moab</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-19.htm">Moaneth</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Moans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-8.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/47-5.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/job/40-18.htm">Pipes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-2.htm">Produced</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-7.htm">Riches</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm">Sound</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-15.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-20.htm">Sounds</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-3.htm">Wails</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-5.htm">Wealth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/lamentations/1-3.htm">Abundance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-13.htm">Acquired</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-42.htm">End</a> <a href="/daniel/3-5.htm">Flute</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-7.htm">Flutes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm">Gained</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-4.htm">Gotten</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-25.htm">Hareseth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-41.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/judges/1-35.htm">Heres</a> <a href="/amos/1-5.htm">Kir</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Kirheres</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Kir-Heres</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Kir-He'res</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-6.htm">Lost</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-38.htm">Moab</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Moaneth</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Moans</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-18.htm">Perish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-46.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">Pipes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-6.htm">Produced</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-4.htm">Riches</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-21.htm">Sound</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-21.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-17.htm">Sounds</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-2.htm">Wails</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-4.htm">Wealth</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 48</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/48-1.htm">The judgment of Moab</a> 7. <a href="/jeremiah/48-7.htm">for their pride</a> 11. <a href="/jeremiah/48-11.htm">for their security</a> 14. <a href="/jeremiah/48-14.htm">for their carnal confidence</a> 26. <a href="/jeremiah/48-26.htm">and for their contempt of God and his people</a> 47. <a href="/jeremiah/48-47.htm">The restoration of Moab</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase indicates deep sorrow and mourning. The flute, often used in funerals and lamentations in ancient cultures, symbolizes the profound grief God feels for Moab. Moab was a nation east of Israel, often in conflict with Israel, yet God expresses compassion for them. This reflects God's character as one who grieves over judgment, even for those who oppose His people. The lamentation is a response to Moab's impending destruction, as prophesied earlier in the chapter.it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, Kir-heres, also known as Kir-hareseth, was a significant city in Moab. The repetition of the flute imagery emphasizes the intensity of the lament. Kir-heres was a fortified city, indicating that even the strongholds of Moab would not escape judgment. This highlights the totality of the coming devastation. The lament for Kir-heres underscores the personal and communal loss that the Moabites would experience.because the wealth they acquired has perished. The wealth of Moab, likely accumulated through trade and agriculture, is now gone. This loss signifies not just economic ruin but also the collapse of their societal structure and security. In biblical terms, wealth often symbolizes self-reliance and pride, which can lead to a nation's downfall when it turns away from God. The perishing of wealth serves as a reminder of the transient nature of material possessions and the ultimate sovereignty of God over nations. This connects to the broader biblical theme that true security and prosperity come from reliance on God, not on earthly riches.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> The prophet who conveyed God's messages to the people of Judah and surrounding nations, including Moab. He is known for his lamentations and warnings of impending judgment. 2. <a href="/topical/m/moab.htm">Moab</a> A nation east of Israel, often in conflict with Israel. Moab is the subject of God's judgment in this passage due to their pride and idolatry. 3. <a href="/topical/k/kir-heres.htm">Kir-heres</a> A significant city in Moab, known for its strong fortifications. It is specifically mentioned as a place of lamentation due to the loss of wealth and prosperity. 4. <a href="/topical/f/flute.htm">Flute</a> A musical instrument used here metaphorically to express deep sorrow and lamentation. The sound of the flute is associated with mourning. 5. <a href="/topical/w/wealth.htm">Wealth</a> Represents the material prosperity of Moab, which is now lost due to God's judgment. It serves as a symbol of the transient nature of earthly riches.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_transience_of_earthly_wealth.htm">The Transience of Earthly Wealth</a> Earthly riches are temporary and can be lost in an instant. Our focus should be on storing up treasures in heaven, where they are eternal. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> God is just and sovereign in His judgments. Nations and individuals are accountable to Him, and His judgments are righteous. <a href="/topical/t/the_heart_of_god_in_lament.htm">The Heart of God in Lament</a> God’s lamentation over Moab shows His compassion even in judgment. He does not delight in the downfall of nations but desires repentance and restoration. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_humility.htm">The Call to Humility</a> Moab's downfall was due to pride. We are called to live humbly before God, recognizing our dependence on Him for all things. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophets.htm">The Role of Prophets</a> Prophets like Jeremiah serve as God's messengers, calling people to repentance and warning of consequences. We should heed the warnings and teachings found in Scripture.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_48.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 48</a> <a href="/q/how_do_later_mentions_fit_moab's_prophecy.htm">If Jeremiah 48:42 says Moab will cease to be a people, how do later mentions of Moab or its descendants fit with this prophecy?</a> <a href="/q/why_is_moab's_fate_sealed_in_jer._48_1-39.htm">Why does Jeremiah 48:1-39 repeatedly portray divine retaliation against Moab with no apparent path for redemption?</a> <a href="/q/does_jer._48_11_conflict_with_moab's_history.htm">Does Jeremiah 48:11 conflict with historical accounts that suggest Moab did not always remain complacent or at peace?</a> <a href="/q/how_did_moab_survive_jeremiah_48_8-9.htm">How can the prophecy in Jeremiah 48:8-9 of Moab's total destruction be reconciled with archaeological evidence suggesting Moabite cities outlasted this period?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/48.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(36) Mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes . . .--The words reproduce <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm" title="Why my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.">Isaiah 16:11</a>. His heart becomes, as it were, musical in its groans and sighs. He cannot look on the panic-stricken and mourning city without sharing in its misery. In the baldness (<a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm" title="Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.">Jeremiah 7:29</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/16-6.htm" title="Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:">Jeremiah 16:6</a>), the clipped beard, the cuttings (<a href="/jeremiah/16-6.htm" title="Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:">Jeremiah 16:6</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/41-5.htm" title="That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.">Jeremiah 41:5</a>), the sackcloth (<a href="/jeremiah/4-8.htm" title="For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.">Jeremiah 4:8</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/6-26.htm" title="O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come on us.">Jeremiah 6:26</a>; <a href="/joel/1-8.htm" title="Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.">Joel 1:8</a>) we have the wonted signs of mourning for the dead. The "pipe" is chosen rather than the harp, as in <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm" title="Why my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kirharesh.">Isaiah 16:11</a>, because it had come to be the recognised music for funerals (so in <a href="/matthew/9-23.htm" title="And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,">Matthew 9:23</a>). . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/48.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 36-42. - The description of Moab's lamentations continued. Verse 36. - Based on <a href="/isaiah/16-11.htm">Isaiah 16:11</a>; <a href="/isaiah/15-7.htm">Isaiah 15:7</a>. Like pipes. Isaiah has, "like the harp [or, 'lute']." The pipe, or flute, was specially used at funeral ceremonies (<a href="/matthew/9-23.htm">Matthew 9:23</a>; <a href="/luke/7-32.htm">Luke 7:32</a>), and therefore, perhaps, seemed to Jeremiah more appropriate. Because the riches, etc. This is, no doubt, what we should have expected, but this is not what Jeremiah wrote; "because" should rather be therefore. Jeremiah simply transferred a clause (substantially at least) from his original, <a href="/isaiah/15-7.htm">Isaiah 15:7</a>, but into a context where it stands rather less naturally. The meaning of the words in Isaiah is that, the desolation being so great, the Moabites shall carry away as much of their goods as they can. In this new context, however, we can only explain this unexpected "therefore" by referring to a habit of the Israelitish mind by which that which contributed to a result was regarded as worked purposely for that result. Good instances of this habit are <a href="/genesis/18-5.htm">Genesis 18:5</a>; <a href="/psalms/45-3.htm">Psalm 45:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/51-6.htm">Psalm 51:6</a>; comp. Winer's 'New Testament Grammar' (Clark), pp. 573, 574, especially note 1 on p. 574, though the idiom also occurs in Old Testament passages in which the religious view of life is hardly traceable. <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Therefore עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against My heart לִבִּ֤י (lib·bî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre laments יֶהֱמֶ֔ה (ye·hĕ·meh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1993.htm">Strong's 1993: </a> To make a, loud sound, commotion, tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor for Moab לְמוֹאָב֙ (lə·mō·w·’āḇ) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4124.htm">Strong's 4124: </a> Moab -- a son of Lot,also his descendants and the territory where they settled like a flute; כַּחֲלִלִ֣ים (ka·ḥă·li·lîm) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2485.htm">Strong's 2485: </a> Flute, pipe [it] וְלִבִּי֙ (wə·lib·bî) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre laments יֶהֱמֶ֑ה (ye·hĕ·meh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1993.htm">Strong's 1993: </a> To make a, loud sound, commotion, tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor like a flute כַּחֲלִילִ֖ים (ka·ḥă·lî·lîm) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2485.htm">Strong's 2485: </a> Flute, pipe for אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the men אַנְשֵׁ֣י (’an·šê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person of Kir-heres, חֶ֔רֶשׂ (ḥe·reś) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7025.htm">Strong's 7025: </a> Kir-hareseth -- 'wall of earthenware', a fortified city in Moab because עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against the wealth יִתְרַ֥ת (yiṯ·raṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3502.htm">Strong's 3502: </a> Excellence, wealth they acquired עָשָׂ֖ה (‘ā·śāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make has perished. אָבָֽדוּ׃ (’ā·ḇā·ḏū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> To wander away, lose oneself, to perish <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/48-36.htm">Jeremiah 48:36 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-36.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 48:36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 48:35"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 48:35" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/48-37.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 48:37"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 48:37" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>