Isaiah 15:1–9

A Prophecy Against Moab

16:6–12pp—Jer 48:29–36

15 A prophecyy against Moab:z

Ara in Moab is ruined,b

destroyed in a night!

Kirc in Moab is ruined,

destroyed in a night!

2 Dibond goes up to its temple,

to its high placese to weep;

Moab wailsf over Nebog and Medeba.

Every head is shavedh

and every beard cut off.i

3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;j

on the roofsk and in the public squaresl

they all wail,m

prostrate with weeping.n

4 Heshbono and Elealehp cry out,

their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.q

Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,

and their hearts are faint.

5 My heart cries outr over Moab;s

her fugitivest flee as far as Zoar,u

as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.

They go up the hill to Luhith,

weeping as they go;

on the road to Horonaimv

they lament their destruction.w

6 The waters of Nimrim are dried upx

and the grass is withered;y

the vegetation is gonez

and nothing green is left.a

7 So the wealth they have acquiredb and stored up

they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;

their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,

their lamentation as far as Beerc Elim.

9 The waters of Dimona are full of blood,

but I will bring still more upon Dimonb—

a liond upon the fugitives of Moabe

and upon those who remain in the land.