Isaiah 15

An Oracle Concerning Moab

¹An oracle concerning Moab.[#14:28 above; #Jer. 48; Ezek. 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph. 2:8, 9]

Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone;

because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone.

²He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon,[#15:2 Hebrew; #Num. 21:30]

to the high places to weep;

over Nebo and over Medeba

Moab wails.

On every head is baldness;

every beard is shorn;

³in the streets they wear sackcloth;

on the housetops and in the squares

everyone wails and melts in tears.

⁴Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;[#Num. 32:37; #Num. 32:37]

their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;

therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;

his soul trembles.

⁵My heart cries out for Moab;

her 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[#Num. 32:36]

are a desolation;

the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,

the greenery is no more.

⁷Therefore the abundance they have gained[#Jer. 48:36]

and what they have laid up

they carry away

over the Brook of the Willows.

⁸For a cry has gone

around the land of Moab;

her wailing reaches to Eglaim;

her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

⁹For the waters of Dibon are full of blood;[#2; #15:9 Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text ; twice in this verse]

for I will bring upon Dibon even more,

a lion for those of Moab who escape,

for the remnant of the land.