Jeremiah 48:36

New American Bible - revised edition

Hence my heart wails like a flute for Moab; my heart wails like a flute for the people of Kir-heres: the wealth they accumulated has perished.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

leveling the cities, each one casting the stones onto every fertile field and filling it, stopping up every spring, felling every fruit tree, until only the stones of Kir-hareseth remained. Then the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath, but justice saves from death.

Proverbs 13:22

The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

Proverbs 18:11

The wealth of the rich is their strong city; they fancy it a high wall.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab, his fugitives reach Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah: The ascent of Luhith they ascend weeping; On the way to Horonaim they utter rending cries;

Isaiah 15:7

So now whatever they have acquired or stored away they carry across the Wadi of the Poplars.

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore for Moab my heart moans like a lyre, my inmost being for Kir-hareseth.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven and regard us from your holy and glorious palace! Where is your zealous care and your might, your surge of pity? Your mercy hold not back!

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.

Jeremiah 4:19

My body! my body! how I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart beats wildly, I cannot be still; For I myself have heard the blast of the horn, the battle cry.

Jeremiah 48:31

And so I wail over Moab, over all Moab I cry, over the people of Kir-heres I moan.