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 convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.

My heart shall cry to Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years. He goes up the ascent to Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin.

Therefore my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my bowels for Kir-hareseth.

Look down from Heaven, and look down from the place of Your holiness and of Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your tender affections and of Your mercies toward me? Are they withheld?

Kir-heres

So I will wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, and shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

The riches

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons' sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own mind.

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.

Therefore one made up the remainder and their store; over the torrent of the willows they shall carry them.

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.