Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The mounting

Bible References

My heart

Isaiah 16:9
So I weep, as Jazer weeps, for the vines of Sibmah. O Heshbon, O Elealeh, I drench you with tears! The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit and over your harvests have been stilled.
Jeremiah 8:18
My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me!
Jeremiah 9:10
I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 13:17
If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah's flock will be taken captive.
Jeremiah 17:16
I have not hurried away from being your shepherd. I have not longed for the day of destruction. You know what I used to say.
Jeremiah 48:31
I cry with sadness for Moab, yes for everyone in Moab. I moan for the people from the town of Kir-Hareseth.
Luke 19:41
When he came close to the city he wept over it.
Romans 9:1
I tell the truth in Christ. I do not lie! My conscience bears witness with me in Holy Spirit.

Three

Isaiah 16:14
Now Jehovah says: Moab's honor will be despised within three years. I will count them like workers count the years left of their contracts. In spite of their great number, the survivors will be very few and powerless.
Jeremiah 48:34
Their crying can be heard from Moabite towns. It can be heard from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz, from Zoar as far away as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah (three year old heifer). Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.

The mounting

Jeremiah 48:5
Hear the sound of their sobs along the road up to Luhith, the cries of distress on the way down to Horonaim.

With

2 Samuel 15:23
The people cried loudly as David's followers left. The king crossed Kidron Brook. His men followed him. They went to the wilderness.

Destruction

Isaiah 22:5
The Lord Jehovah of Hosts has a day of tumult, trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision. It is a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant.

General references

Genesis 15:9
He (God) said to him: Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Exodus 11:6
Everywhere in Egypt there will be loud crying. Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again.
Jeremiah 51:54
Cries of agony are heard from Babylon. Sounds of terrible destruction are heard from the land of the Babylonians.