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36 “My heart cries sadly for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song.
    It cries like a flute for the people from Kir Hareseth.
    The money they made has all been taken away.
37 Every head has been shaved
    and every beard cut off.
Everyone’s hands are cut,
    and everyone wears rough cloth around his waist.[a]
38 People are crying on every roof[b] in Moab
    and in every public square.
There is nothing but sadness,
    because I have broken Moab
    like a jar no one wants,” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 48:37 Every head . . . waist. The people did these things to show their sadness for those who had died.
  2. 48:38 roof In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship, and as a cool place to sleep in the summer.

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