My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as (A)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the (B)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress (C)over their collapse.

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My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

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

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Footnotes

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

11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

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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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Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

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Therefore I say, “Look away from me,
Let me (A)weep bitterly,
Do not [a]try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:4 Lit insist

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

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Grief over Zion

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

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Footnotes

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

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

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10 “I will take up a weeping and wailing for the (A)mountains,
And for the pastures of the (B)wilderness a song of mourning,
Because they are (C)laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the sound of the livestock is not heard;
Both the (D)birds of the sky and the animals have fled; they are gone.

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10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

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But if I say, “I will not (A)remember Him
Nor speak anymore in His name,”
Then in (B)my heart it becomes like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
And I am tired of holding it in,
And (C)I cannot endure it.

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Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

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