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Jeremiah 48:36

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36 "Therefore * My 1heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore * they have 2lost the abundance it produced.
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Jeremiah 48:36 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 48:36

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes
That are sounded on mournful occasions, as at funerals, and the like; see ( Matthew 9:23 ) . This the prophet said, as Kimchi observes, in the person of the people, the inhabitants of Moab; whose hearts would yearn and sound for the calamities of their country like the doleful sound of minstrels. So the Targum,

``therefore the Moabites shall sound in their hearts like a harp:''
and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres;
as for the country of Moab in general, so for this principal city, and the inhabitants of it, in particular; (See Gill on Isaiah 16:11); because the riches [that] he hath gotten is perished;
either Moab or Kirheres; the abundance of goods they had got together were now lost, falling into the hands of the enemy; and which was matter of lamentation. The Targum is,
``for the rest of their substance they had got were spoiled.''
Some understand it of the residue of men that escaped the sword; these perished by famine, or other means; see ( Isaiah 15:7 ) .
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Jeremiah 48:36 In-Context

34 "From 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.
35 "I 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.
36 "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.
37 "For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.
38 "On 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 .

Cross References 2

  • 1. Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 16:11
  • 2. Isaiah 15:7

Footnotes 2

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