Isaiah 15

An Oracle against Moab

15An oracle against Moab: ^w

Ar in Moab is devastated, ^x

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 ^yMedeba.

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. ^z

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,

and they tremble. ^a

⁵My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, ^b

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 ^care desolate;

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. ^d

⁸For their cry echoes

throughout the territory of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

their wailing reaches Beer-elim.

⁹The waters of Dibon ^eare full of blood, ^f

but I will bring on Dibon ^geven more than this—

a lion for those who escape from Moab,

and for the survivors in the land. ^h