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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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 has perished.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV Therefore My heart shall wail like flutes for Moab, And like flutes My heart shall wail For the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the riches they have acquired have perished.
- NASB “Therefore My heart makes a sound like flutes for Moab; My heart also makes a sound like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.
- NLT My heart moans like a flute for Moab and Kir-hareseth, for all their wealth has disappeared.
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The LORD's heart moans like a flute for Moab and the men of Kir Heres, for their gained wealth has perished.
Overview
God again voices deep lament, His heart sounding like mournful pipes over Moab's loss of all she had amassed. The riches she trusted have vanished. The divine sorrow over perished wealth shows both God's compassion and the emptiness of treasures laid up apart from Him, pointing to the lasting riches found in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Isa 15:7So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
- Isa 16:11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
- Isa 15:5My 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.
- Jas 5:2–3Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
- Prov 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Jer 4:19My 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.
- Jer 17:11Like 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.”
- Isa 63:15Look 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.
- Luke 12:20–21But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Prov 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- Eccl 5:13–14There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
- Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
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