Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They shall mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
- BSB Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
- NKJV Therefore I will wail for Moab, And I will cry out for all Moab; I will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
- NASB “Therefore I will wail for Moab, For all of Moab I will cry out; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
- NLT So now I wail for Moab; yes, I will mourn for Moab. My heart is broken for the men of Kir-hareseth.
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Quick answer
The LORD declares He will wail and cry out for all Moab, mourning for the men of Kir Heres.
Overview
Strikingly, God Himself laments over the doomed nation and its people. The judge weeps even as judgment falls, revealing His compassion. This divine grief over the lost anticipates Christ weeping over Jerusalem, showing that God takes no delight in the death of the wicked but desires that they turn and live.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Isa 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.
- 2 Kgs 3:25And 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.
- Jer 48:36Therefore 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.
- Isa 16:7–11Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
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