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[a]Therefore let Moab wail,
    let everyone wail for Moab;
For the raisin cakes[b] of Kir-hareseth
    let them sigh, stricken with grief.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:7–14 Moab had been prosperous; now it has become a desert.
  2. 16:7 Raisin cakes: masses of dried compressed grapes used as food (cf. 2 Sm 6:19; 1 Chr 16:3; Sg 2:5), and also in the worship of other gods (Hos 3:1).

Therefore the Moabites wail,(A)
    they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
    for the raisin cakes(B) of Kir Hareseth.(C)

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Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

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