Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

For this, my heart shall sound for Moab as pipes, and my heart shall sound for the men of Kirheres as pipes: for the riches he made perished.

New American Standard Bible

“Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Therefore, My heart moans like flutes for Moab, and My heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished.

International Standard Version

Therefore my heart wails for Moab like flutes and my heart wails for the men of Kir-heres like flutes. Therefore they'll lose the abundance they produced.

A Conservative Version

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

American Standard Version

Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.

Amplified

“Therefore My heart moans and sighs for Moab like flutes, and My heart moans and sighs like flutes for the men of Kir-heres (Kir-hareseth); therefore [the remnant of] the abundant riches they gained has perished.

Bible in Basic English

So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.

Darby Translation

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; because the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.

King James 2000

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he has gotten have perished.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{Therefore} my heart moans for Moab like the flute. It moans for the people of Kir-heres like the flute. {Therefore} [the] wealth they gained has perished.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like flutes, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches that he has gotten have perished.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore my heart mourneth for Moab, like a crowd playing a heavy song: and for the men's sake of the brick wall my heart mourneth also, even as a pipe that pipeth a doleful song. For they shall be very few, and destroyed.

NET Bible

So my heart moans for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song. Yes, like a flute playing a funeral song, my heart moans for the people of Kir Heres. For the wealth they have gained will perish.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

The Emphasized Bible

For this cause, my heart, for Moab, like flutes, shall make plaintive sounds, Yea my heart for the men of Kir-heres! like flutes, shall make plaintive sounds, Because, the abundance he hath gotten is lost!

Webster

Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten have perished.

World English Bible

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

Youngs Literal Translation

Therefore my heart for Moab as pipes doth sound, And my heart for men of Kir-Heres As pipes doth sound, Therefore the abundance he made did perish.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מואב 
Mow'ab 
Usage: 181

חליל 
Chaliyl 
חליל 
Chaliyl 
Usage: 6
Usage: 6

for the men
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

of Kirheres
קיר חרשׂת קיר חרשׂ 
Qiyr Cheres 
Usage: 5

יתרה 
Yithrah 
Usage: 2

References

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Moab

35 And I caused to cease to shout, says Jehovah, him bringing up to the height, and him burning incense to his gods. 36 For this, my heart shall sound for Moab as pipes, and my heart shall sound for the men of Kirheres as pipes: for the riches he made perished. 37 For every head bald, and every beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.



Cross References

Isaiah 15:7

For this the abundance made and their wealth upon the torrent of the Arabians shall they lift them up.

Isaiah 16:11

For this my bowels shall sound as a harp for Moab, and my inner parts for the wall of Haresh.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart shall cry out for Moab; passing through even to Zoar, a heifer of three years: for going up to Luhith with weeping shall they go up into it: for the way of Horonaim they shall rouse up a cry of breaking.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.

Proverbs 13:22

The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just.

Proverbs 18:11

The rich one's wealth his strong city, and as a wall lifted up in his imagination.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-14

There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

Isaiah 63:15

Look from the heavens, and see from thy holy dwelling and thy glory: where thy zeal and thy strength? the multitude of thy bowels and thy compassions to me restrained themselves.

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels, my bowels! I shall afflict the walls of my heart; my heart made commotion to me; I shall not be silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.

Jeremiah 17:11

The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.

Luke 12:20-21

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

James 5:2-3

Your riches have become corrupted, and your garments have been moth eaten;

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