Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
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Gill's Exposition
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer,.... Sibmah was a city in the land of Moab abounding with vines, but now should be destroyed; and Jazer another city in the same…
Barnes' Notes
Mine heart ... - Rather, “there shall be mourning for” etc.
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a…
Cambridge Bible
Based on Isa 16:7, but the influence of the first person in Jer 48:48 there ("I will, etc.") has led here to the prophet's grief for Moab being represented as caused by her pride.
will I howl In the…
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