Jeremiah 48:31-33

The prophet would mourn over Moab’s fate, and for the fate of her people, even more than people had wept over the fate of the fall of the town of Jazar. The Israelites had taken Jazar, a town 10 miles north of Heshbon, during their conquest of Transjordan (cf. Numbers 21:32). Apparently the mourning over that destruction, or a subsequent one, had become proverbial.

Moab was proud of its vineyards and fruit trees. Jeremiah compared the destruction to come to the cutting back of Moab’s renowned products and its resulting sadness. The shouting would not be the glad rejoicing of treaders of grapes, but the cries of warriors bent on destruction. Moab’s "tendrils stretching across the (Mediterranean) sea" pictures her international trade in wine. [Note: Smothers, pp. 318-19.]