Jeremiah 48:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³¹Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

Jeremiah 48:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 3:25
And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
Isaiah 15:5
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.
Jeremiah 48:36
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.
Isaiah 16:7-11
Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-47)

The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it, but to affect us with the calamitous state of human life, which is liable to s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

31. I will cry ... for ... Moab--Not that it deserves pity, but the prophet’s “crying” for it vividly represents the greatness of the calamity. Kir-heres--Kir-hareseth, in Is 16:7; see on Is 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 Is 16:7. The change answers probably to the…