Jeremiah 48:31

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left its stones; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.
  • Isa 15:5 : 5 My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
  • Jer 48:36 : 36 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.
  • Isa 16:7-9 : 7 Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. 9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen. 10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop. 11 Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

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  • Jer 48:32-42
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    32With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.

    33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

    35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.

    36Therefore 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.

    37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

    38On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.

    39How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

    40For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

    41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

    42Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

  • Isa 16:7-9
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    7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

    8For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

    9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

  • Isa 16:11-12
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    11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

    12It will happen that when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, that he will not prevail.

  • Isa 15:1-5
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    1The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

    2They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

    3In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

    4Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

    5My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Isa 15:7-8
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    7Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

  • Jer 48:3-5
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    3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

    5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

  • Jer 48:20-21
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    20Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

    21Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

  • Jer 48:1
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    1Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.

  • Amos 2:2
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    2but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

  • Jer 48:46-47
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    46Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.

    47Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

  • Jer 48:15-17
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    15Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

    17All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!

  • Jer 48:24-25
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    24and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

  • Ezek 25:9
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    9therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,

  • Amos 5:16-17
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    74%

    16Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

    17In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • Job 30:31
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    31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

  • Ezek 25:11
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    11and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Jer 48:9
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    9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

  • Jer 49:3
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    3Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

  • Lam 1:16
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    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

  • Jer 48:30
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    30I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.

  • Jer 14:2
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    2Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.