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Jeremiah 48:36 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 36. 36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic or communal lament carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the…” at Jeremiah 48:36 as part of “The Heart Moans as Moab Cannot Escape.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 48:36–46
Read Jeremiah 48:36 with 48:36–46. By itself, “Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Flute-like mourning, shaved heads, sackcloth, shattered pottery, terror-pit-snare, and fire gather the oracle into communal grief.
Why It Needs Context
This context pointer tracks one step in Jeremiah 48:36–46: The prophetic or communal lament carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the…” at Jeremiah 48:36 as part of “The Heart Moans as Moab Cannot Escape.” Read the thought unit before assigning enduring truth or application.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Jeremiah 48:36–46 — The Heart Moans as Moab Cannot EscapeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 48:36–46, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 48:36–46
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