Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
I will cry out for ... Moab - not that it deserves pity, but the prophet's "crying" for it vividly represents the greatness of the calamity.
Kir-heres - Kir-hareseth, in Isaiah 16:7, see note there. It means the city of potters, or else the city of the sun (Grotius). Here "the men of Kir-heres" are substituted for "the foundations of Kir-hareseth" in Isaiah 16:7. The change answers probably to the different bearing of the disaster under Nebuchadnezzar, as compared with that former one spoken of in Isaiah under Shalmaneser.