Jeremiah 48:36-38

International Children’s Bible

³⁶“My heart cries for Moab like a flute playing a funeral song.
    It cries for the people from Kir Hareseth.
    Their money and riches have all been taken away.
³⁷Everyone has a shaved head.
    Everyone’s beard is cut off.
Everyone’s hands are cut.
    Everyone wears rough cloth around his waist.^[a]
³⁸People 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

48:37 shaved head . . . waist The people did these things to show their sadness for those who had died.
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 place to sleep in the summer.