Isaiah 15

A Message About Moab

15Here is a message the Lord gave me about Moab.

The city of Ar in Moab is destroyed.

It happened in a single night.

Kir in Moab is also destroyed.

It happened in a single night.

²The people of Dibon go up to their temple to worship.

They go to their high places to sob.

The people of Moab cry over the cities of Nebo and Medeba.

All of their heads are shaved.

All of their beards have been cut off.

³In the streets they wear black clothes.

On their roofs and in the market places

all of them are crying.

They fall down flat with their faces toward the ground.

And they sob.

⁴The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out.

Their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.

So the fighting men of Moab cry out.

Their hearts are weak.

⁵My heart cries out over Moab.

Some who run away get as far as Zoar.

Others run all the way to Eglath Shelishiyah.

Others go up the road to Luhith.

They are sobbing as they go.

Still others travel the road to Horonaim.

They sing a song of sadness because their town is being destroyed.

⁶The waters at Nimrim are dried up.

And so is the grass.

The plants have died.

Nothing green is left.

⁷The people are trying to escape

through the Valley of the Poplar Trees.

They are carrying with them the wealth

they have collected and stored up.

⁸Their loud cries echo along the border of Moab.

They reach as far as Eglaim.

Their songs of sadness reach all the way to Beer Elim.

⁹The waters of the city of Dimon are full of blood.

But the Lord will bring even more trouble on Dimon.

He will bring lions against those who run away from Moab.

They will also attack those who remain in the land.