Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 48:41

"Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs." — Jeremiah 48:41 (ASV)

Kerioth. —(See Note on Jeremiah 48:24.) Here the word is used with the article, and should probably be translated, as in the margin, the cities, as painting the widespread devastation that was to come on all the fortresses.

As the heart of a woman in her pangs. —See Notes on Jeremiah 30:6; Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3. The precise phrase, however, occurs only here and in Jeremiah 49:22.