OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 48:36

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36

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes, and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

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Verse 36. Pipes. Hebrew chalilim, ( Bible.) lyre or flutes. Such were used at funerals of children; (Matthew 9:23) trumpets sounded for men. Servius.—Could; opposing the conqueror of Asia. verse 30. 31. Calmet.—Prot. “the riches that he hat gotten is perished.”

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