Judgment on Moab
15 The oracle concerning (A)Moab.
Surely in a night (B)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
2 They have gone up to the temple and to (C)Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is (D)bald and every beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they have girded themselves with (E)sackcloth;
(F)On their housetops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, (G)dissolved in tears.
4 (H)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as (I)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the (J)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress (K)over their ruin.
6 For the (L)waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out,
There is (M)no green thing.
7 Therefore the (N)abundance which they have acquired and stored up
They carry off over the brook of Arabim.
8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;
Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,
A (O)lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 15:1
- Isaiah 15:2
- Isaiah 15:3
- Isaiah 15:4
- Isaiah 15:6
- Isaiah 15:6
- Isaiah 15:7
- Isaiah 15:9
Cross references
- Isaiah 15:1 : Is 11:14; 25:10; Jer 48:1; Ezek 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11
- Isaiah 15:1 : Num 21:28
- Isaiah 15:2 : Jer 48:18, 22
- Isaiah 15:2 : Lev 21:5; Jer 48:37
- Isaiah 15:3 : Jon 3:6-8
- Isaiah 15:3 : Jer 48:38
- Isaiah 15:3 : Is 22:4
- Isaiah 15:4 : Num 21:28; 32:3; Jer 48:34
- Isaiah 15:5 : Jer 48:34
- Isaiah 15:5 : Jer 48:5
- Isaiah 15:5 : Is 59:7; Jer 4:20
- Isaiah 15:6 : Is 19:5-7; Jer 48:34
- Isaiah 15:6 : Joel 1:10-12; 2:3
- Isaiah 15:7 : Is 30:6; Jer 48:36
- Isaiah 15:9 : 2 Kin 17:25; Jer 50:17
