Isaiah 15:1–17:14

Proclamation Against Moab

15 The aburden 1against Moab.

Because in the night bAr of cMoab is laid waste

And destroyed,

Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste

And destroyed,

2 He has gone up to the 2temple and Dibon,

To the high places to weep.

Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;

dOn all their heads will be baldness,

And every beard cut off.

3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;

On the tops of their houses

And in their streets

Everyone will wail, eweeping bitterly.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,

Their voice shall be heard as far as fJahaz;

Therefore the 3armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;

His life will be burdensome to him.

5 “My gheart will cry out for Moab;

His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,

Like 4a three-year-old heifer.

For hby the Ascent of Luhith

They will go up with weeping;

For in the way of Horonaim

They will raise up a cry of destruction,

6 For the waters iof Nimrim will be desolate,

For the green grass has withered away;

The grass fails, there is nothing green.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gained,

And what they have laid up,

They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.

8 For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab,

Its wailing to Eglaim

And its wailing to Beer Elim.

9 For the waters of 5Dimon will be full of blood;

Because I will bring more upon 5Dimon,

jLions upon him who escapes from Moab,

And on the remnant of the land.”

Moab Destroyed

16 Send athe lamb to the ruler of the land,

bFrom 1Sela to the wilderness,

To the mount of the daughter of Zion.

2 For it shall be as a cwandering bird thrown out of the nest;

So shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of the dArnon.

3 “Take counsel, execute judgment;

Make your shadow like the night in the middle of the day;

Hide the outcasts,

Do not betray him who escapes.

4 Let My outcasts dwell with you, O Moab;

Be a shelter to them from the face of the 2spoiler.

For the extortioner is at an end,

Devastation ceases,

The oppressors are consumed out of the land.

5 In mercy ethe throne will be established;

And One will sit on it in truth, in the tabernacle of David,

fJudging and seeking justice and hastening grighteousness.”

6 We have heard of the hpride of Moab—

He is very proud—

Of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath;

iBut his 3lies shall not be so.

7 Therefore Moab shall jwail for Moab;

Everyone shall wail.

For the foundations kof Kir Hareseth you shall mourn;

Surely they are stricken.

8 For lthe fields of Heshbon languish,

And mthe vine of Sibmah;

The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,

Which have reached to Jazer

And wandered through the wilderness.

Her branches are stretched out,

They are gone over the nsea.

9 Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,

With the weeping of Jazer;

I will drench you with my tears,

oO Heshbon and Elealeh;

For 4battle cries have fallen

Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

10 pGladness is taken away,

And joy from the plentiful field;

In the vineyards there will be no singing,

Nor will there be shouting;

No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;

I have made their shouting cease.

11 Therefore qmy 5heart shall resound like a harp for Moab,

And my inner being for 6Kir Heres.

12 And it shall come to pass,

When it is seen that Moab is weary on rthe high place,

That he will come to his sanctuary to pray;

But he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning Moab since that time. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, sas the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be despised with all that great multitude, and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

Proclamation Against Syria and Israel

17 The aburden 1against Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,

And it will be a ruinous heap.

2 2The cities of bAroer are forsaken;

They will be for flocks

Which lie down, and cno one will make them afraid.

3 dThe fortress also will cease from Ephraim,

The kingdom from Damascus,

And the remnant of Syria;

They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”

Says the Lord of hosts.

4 “In that day it shall come to pass

That the glory of Jacob will 3wane,

And ethe fatness of his flesh grow lean.

5 fIt shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,

And reaps the heads with his arm;

It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain

In the Valley of Rephaim.

6 gYet gleaning grapes will be left in it,

Like the shaking of an olive tree,

Two or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,

Four or five in its most fruitful branches,”

Says the Lord God of Israel.

7 In that day a man will hlook to his Maker,

And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.

8 He will not look to the altars,

The work of his hands;

He will not respect what his ifingers have made,

Nor the 4wooden images nor the incense altars.

9 In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken 5bough

And 6an uppermost branch,

Which they left because of the children of Israel;

And there will be desolation.

10 Because you have forgotten jthe God of your salvation,

And have not been mindful of the Rock of your 7stronghold,

Therefore you will plant pleasant plants

And set out foreign seedlings;

11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,

And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;

But the harvest will be a heap of ruins

In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

12 Woe to the multitude of many people

Who make a noise klike the roar of the seas,

And to the rushing of nations

That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;

But God will lrebuke them and they will flee far away, And mbe chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,

Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

14 Then behold, at eventide, trouble!

And before the morning, he is no more.

This is the portion of those who plunder us,

And the lot of those who rob us.