Jeremiah 48:36

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Summary

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.

Mine heart

Kir-heres

Jeremiah 48:31

The riches

Bible References

Mine heart

My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart My heart beateth aloud to me I cannot be still! For the sound of a horn, hast thou heard O my soul, The loud shout of war!

Mine own heart, for Moab continueth to make outcry, Her fugitive, as far as Zoar, is like a heifer of three years; For the accent of Luhith, with weeping, they ascend, For by the way of Horonaim - an outcry of destruction, they excite;

For this cause, mine inward parts - for Moab, like a lyre, shall make a plaintive sound, - Yea what is within me, for Kir-heres.

Look thou down, out of the heavens and see, Out of the high abode of thy holiness and of thy majesty, - Where are thy jealousy, and thy mighty deeds? The resounding of thy yearning affection, and thy compassions towards me, are they restrained?

Kir-heres

For this cause over Moab, will I howl, And for all Moab, will I make outcry, - For the men of Kir-heres, must one moan!

The riches

As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.

Wealth, shall not profit, in the day of wrath, but, righteousness, shall deliver from death.

A good man, leaveth an inheritance to children's children, but, laid up for the righteous, is the wealth of the sinner.

The substance of a rich man, is his strong city, and like a high wall, in his imagination.

Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;

For this cause, the savings they had made and that which they had stored, Over the torrent-bed of the willows, shall they bear them.

But God said unto him - Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, -