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My heart cries out for Moab;
Those who flee from her are as far as (A)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the (B)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress (C)over their destruction.

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My heart cries out(A) over Moab;(B)
    her fugitives(C) flee as far as Zoar,(D)
    as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
    weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim(E)
    they lament their destruction.(F)

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11 Therefore my [a](A)inner being moans like a harp for Moab
And my [b]inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:11 Lit entrails murmur
  2. Isaiah 16:11 Lit inward part

11 My heart laments for Moab(A) like a harp,(B)
    my inmost being(C) for Kir Hareseth.

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For this reason my (A)loins are full of anguish;
Pains have seized me like the pains of a (B)woman in labor.
I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

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At this my body is racked with pain,(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered(C) by what I see.

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Therefore I say, “Turn your gaze away from me,
Let me (A)weep bitterly,
Do not insist on comforting me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(B)

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[a](A)Oh that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the (B)daughter of my people!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Heb

[a]Oh, that my head were a spring of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears!(A)
I would weep(B) day and night
    for the slain of my people.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.

10 “For the (A)mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the (B)wilderness a funeral lamentation,
Because they are (C)turned into ruin so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the (D)birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

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10 I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

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But if I say, “I will not (A)remember Him
Or speak anymore in His name,”
Then in (B)my heart it becomes like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
And I am weary of holding it in,
And (C)I cannot prevail.

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But if I say, “I will not mention his word
    or speak anymore in his name,”(A)
his word is in my heart like a fire,(B)
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;(C)
    indeed, I cannot.

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