Jeremiah 48:36
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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.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.
In other translations
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.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.
Hebrew words
עַל־'al-there-H5921כֵּןken-foreH3651לִבִּיlibiheart myH3820לְמוֹאָבlemo'avfor MoabH4124כַּחֲלִלִיםkachalilimlike flutesH2485יֶהֱמֶהyehemehit will groanH1993וְלִבִּיvelibiand heart myH3820אֶל־'el-concerningH413אַנְשֵׁי'anshei[the] people ofH582קִיר־kir-KirH7025חֶרֶשׂcheresHeresH7025כַּחֲלִילִיםkachalilimlike flutesH2485יֶהֱמֶהyehemehit will groanH1993עַל־'al-there-H5921כֵּןken-foreH3651יִתְרַתyitrat[the] wealthH3502עָשָׂה'asah<of> [which] he acquiredH6213אָבָדוּ׃'avaduthey will be lostH6
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Isaiah 15:7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
- Isaiah 16:11Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir–haresh.Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
- Isaiah 15:5My 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.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.
- Proverbs 18:11The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- Jeremiah 4:19My 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.My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
- Proverbs 13:22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Jeremiah 17:11As 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.Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
- Ecclesiastes 5:13-1413 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.13 There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner, 14 or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
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People and places
Places: Kir-hareseth, Moab