THEOSISJeremiah 48:36Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of the brick wall: because he hath done more than he could, therefore they have perished.
עַל־כֵּ֞ן לִבִּ֤י לְמוֹאָב֙ כַּחֲלִלִ֣ים יֶהֱמֶ֔ה וְלִבִּי֙ אֶל־אַנְשֵׁ֣י קִֽיר־חֶ֔רֶשׂ כַּחֲלִילִ֖ים יֶהֱמֶ֑ה עַל־כֵּ֛ן יִתְרַ֥ת עָשָׂ֖ה אָבָֽדוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 15:7According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.
- Isa 16:11Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.
- Isa 15:5My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
- Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.
- Luke 12:20But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
- Luke 12:21So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.
- Jas 5:2Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
- Jas 5:3Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.