Isaiah 15

Isaiah 15

An Oracle concerning Moab

1An oracle concerning Moab.[#Isa 11.14; Jer 48; Ezek 25.8–11]

Because Ar is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone;

because Kir is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone.

2Daughter Dibon has gone up[#Lev 21.5; #15.2 Cn: Heb the house and Dibon]

to the high places to weep;

over Nebo and over Medeba

Moab wails.

Every head is shaved;

every beard is shorn;

3in the streets they bind on sackcloth;[#Isa 22.4; Jer 48.38; Jon 3.6–8]

on the housetops and in the squares

everyone wails and melts in tears.

4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;

therefore the loins of Moab quiver;

his soul trembles.

5My heart cries out for Moab;[#Isa 59.7; Jer 48.5, 31, 34]

his fugitives flee to Zoar,

to Eglath-shelishiyah.

For at the ascent of Luhith

they go up weeping;

on the road to Horonaim

they raise a cry of destruction;

6the waters of Nimrim[#Isa 19.5–7; Joel 1.10–12]

are a desolation;

the grass is withered; the new growth fails;

vegetation is no more.

7Therefore the abundance they have gained[#Isa 30.6]

and what they have laid up

they carry away

over the Wadi of the Willows.

8For a cry has gone

around the land of Moab;

the wailing reaches to Eglaim;

the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

9For the waters of Dibon are full of blood,[#2 Kings 17.25; Jer 50.17; #15.9 Q ms Vg: MT Dimon]

yet I will bring upon Dibon even more—

a lion for those of Moab who escape,

for the remnant of the land.

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