Isaiah 15

Judgment on Moab

¹The pronouncement concerning Moab:

Certainly in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;

Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

²The people have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep.[#15:2 Lit He has gone; i.e., Moab, meaning the people of Moab; #15:2 Lit house]

Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;

Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

³In their streets they have put on sackcloth;

On their housetops and in their public squares

Everyone is wailing, overcome with weeping.

⁴Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,

Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;

Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;

His soul trembles within him.

⁵My heart cries out for Moab;

His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,

For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;

Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their collapse.

⁶For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.[#15:6 Lit desolations]

Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died,

There is no greenery.

⁷Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up,

They carry it off over the brook of Arabim.

⁸For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,

Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.

⁹For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;[#15:9 Heb dam (a wordplay)]

I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,

A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.