Isaiah 15

CHAPTER 15

An Oracle Concerning Moab

¹The ¹oracle concerning ^aMoab.

Surely in a night ^bAr of Moab is destroyed and ruined;

Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyed and ruined.

²They have gone up to the ¹temple and to ^aDibon, even to the high places to weep.

Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;

Everyone’s head is ^bbald and every beard is cut off.

³In their streets they have girded themselves with ^asackcloth;

^bOn their rooftops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, ^1cdissolved in weeping.

^4aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,

Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;

Therefore ¹the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;

His soul trembles within him.

⁵My heart cries out for Moab;

Those who flee from her are as far as ^aZoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,

For they go up the ^bascent of Luhith weeping;

Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress ^cover their destruction.

⁶For the ^awaters of Nimrim are ¹desolate.

Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has ²completely ceased,

There is ^bno green thing.

⁷Therefore the ^aabundance they have made and stored up

They carry off over the brook of ¹Arabim.

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

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

⁹For the waters of Dimon are full of ¹blood;

Surely I will put added woes upon Dimon,

A ^alion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land.