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Jeremiah 48:31

in Jeremiah 48

Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn.

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.

This verse in Jeremiah 48

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Kir-heres--Kir-hareseth, in Isa 16:7; see on Isa 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 Isa 16:7.

This site's exposition

the pride of Moab

on Jeremiah 48:29-39

The indictment is piled in synonyms, his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart, and much of this section speaks in Isaiah 15 and 16's own words, two prophets carrying one burden a century apart, which the commentators set side by side. The strange thing is who weeps: therefore will I howl for Moab, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer, mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, the judge mourning inside his own sentence, and the bench pauses here, because the oracle's compassion is the Lord's own. The vintage fails with none to tread with shouting, every head bald and every beard clipped, and Moab is broken like a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Therefore will I howl for Moab,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Mine heart ... - Rather, “there shall be mourning for” etc.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • עַל־there-

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • כֵּן֙-fore

    kenH3651771 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • מוֹאָ֣בMoab

    moavH4124181 times

  • אֲיֵלִ֔ילI will wail

    ʾayelilH321330 times

  • וּלְמוֹאָ֥בand for Moab

    ulemoavH4124181 times

  • כֻּלֹּ֖הall of it

    kulohH36055413 times

  • אֶזְעָ֑קI will cry out

    ʾezakH219973 times

  • אֶל־concerning

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אַנְשֵׁ֥י[the] people of

    ʾansheiH582566 times

  • קִֽיר־Kir

    kir-H702510 times

  • חֶ֖רֶשׂHeres

    cheresH702510 times

  • יֶהְגֶּֽה׃he will groan

    yehgehH1897

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 48:36

    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.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 16:11

      Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 15:7

      So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.

  • Through

    2 Kings 3:25

    They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 3:19

      And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”

    • Isaiah 16:7

      Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.

    • Jeremiah 48:36

      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.

  • Through

    Isaiah 15:5

    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.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 48:5

      For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

    • Jeremiah 4:20

      Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

    • Jeremiah 48:31–36

      Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.