Isaiah 15

An Oracle against Moab

¹An oracle against Moab:[#Gn 19:31-37; Is 11:14; 25:10; Jr 48:1-38; Ezk 25:8-11; Am 2:1-3; Zph 2:8-9]

Ar in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night.

Kir in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night.

²Dibon went up to its temple

to weep at its high places.

Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.

Every head is shaved;

every beard is cut off.

³In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

⁴Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,

and they tremble.

⁵My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the slope of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

⁶The waters of Nimrim are desolate;[#Nm 32:3,36; Jos 13:27]

the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,

and the vegetation has vanished.

⁷So they carry their wealth and belongings

over the Wadi of the Willows.

⁸For their cry echoes

throughout the territory of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

their wailing reaches Beer-elim.

⁹The waters of Dibon are full of blood,[#DSS, some LXX mss, Vg; MT reads Dimon; #2Kg 3:22-23]

but I will bring on Dibon even more than this —

a lion for those who escape from Moab,

and for the survivors in the land.