Jeremiah 48:31

“Therefore will I howl for Moab, etc.] The prophet, being as a man affected with the miseries of a people very wicked, and so deserving of them; though indeed by this he does not so much design to express the affections of his own heart, as to show what reason the Moabites would have to howl for the calamities of their country; for, as Kimchi observes, the prophet here speaks in the person of the people of Moab; (see <231607>Isaiah 16:7); and I will cry out for all Moab; the whole country of Moab, which should become desolate: [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres; the same with Kirhareseth, a city of Moab, (<231607>Isaiah 16:7); whose foundations should be sapped, the city taken,…”

“I will cry . . . for . . . Moab--Not that it deserves pity, but the prophet's "crying" for it vividly represents the greatness of the calamity. Kir-heres--Kir-hareseth, in Isa 16:7; see on Isa 16:7. It means "the city of potters," or else "the city of the sun" [GROTIUS]. Here "the men of Kir-heres" are substituted for "the foundations of Kir-hareseth," in Isa 16:7. The change answers probably to the different bearing of the disaster under Nebuchadnezzar, as compared with that former one under Shalmaneser.”

“Mine heart ... - Rather, “there shall be mourning for” etc. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Kir - herez - A city of Moab. Jeremiah 48:32”

“48:31 The Lord had to punish Moab and other nations that sinned, but it caused him to mourn. • Kir-hareseth was Moab’s capital city.”

“will I howl: Isa 15:5, Isa 16:7-11 Kirheres: Jer 48:36; Kg2 3:25, Kar-haraseth, Isa 16:7, Kir-hareseth Jeremiah 48:32”

“Jer 48:31-33 are also an imitation of Isa 16:7-10. V. 31 is a reproduction of Isa 16:7. In Jer 48:7, Isaiah sets forth the lamentation of Moab over the devastation of his country and its precious fruits; and not until v. 9 does the prophet, in deep sympathy, mingle his tears with those of the Moabites. Jeremiah, on the other hand, with his natural softness, at once begins, in the first person, his lament over Moab. על־כּן, "therefore," is not immediately connected with Jer 48:29., but with the leading idea presented in Jer 48:26 and Jer 48:28, that Moab will fall like one intoxicated, and that he must flee out of his cities. If we refer it to Jer 48:30, there we must attach it to the thought…”