Jeremiah 48:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the people of Kir-heres I mourn. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore I will wail over Moab, and I will cry out over the whole of Moab. Over the men of Kir-heres (Kir-hareseth) there will be sighing and mourning. [Isa. 15:1; 16:7, 11.] American Standard Version (1901) Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn. Common English Bible But I’ll still wail for Moab; I’ll cry out for all Moab; I’ll sob for the people of Kir-heres. Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, I will wail over Moab, and I will cry out to all of Moab, to the men on the brick wall who are lamenting. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore will I lament for Moab and I will cry out to all Moab for the men of the brick wall that mourn. |
The cities they overturned, and on every good piece of land everyone threw a stone until it was covered; every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. Only at Kir-hareseth did the stone walls remain until the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;
Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the people of Kir-heres, for the riches they gained have perished.