Jeremiah 48:31

Based on Isaiah 16:7, but the influence of the first person in Jeremiah 48:9 there ("I will, etc.") has led here to the prophet's grief for Moab being represented as caused by her pride.

will I howl In the corresponding passage in Isaiah it is first the country that mourns for itself, Jeremiah 48:7, and only later, Jeremiah 48:9, the prophet also expresses grief.

For "the men of" we should probably read, as in Isaiah, raisin-cakes of Kir-heres. They were made of a mixture of raisins and meal. Cp. Hosea 3:1. The two words in the original resemble each other. Kir-heres was probably the modern Kerak, eighteen miles S. of the Arnon and eight miles E. of the Dead Sea; a strong fortress on a steep hill surrounded by ravines.