An Oracle concerning Moab
15 An oracle concerning Moab.
Because Ar is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone;
because Kir is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone.(A)
2 Daughter Dibon has gone up
to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is shorn;(B)
3 in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.(C)
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the loins of Moab quiver;
his soul trembles.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
his fugitives flee to Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;(D)
6 the waters of Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered; the new growth fails;
vegetation is no more.(E)
7 Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Wadi of the Willows.(F)
8 For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
the wailing reaches to Eglaim;
the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dibon are full of blood,
yet I will bring upon Dibon even more—
a lion for those of Moab who escape,
for the remnant of the land.(G)
Footnotes
- 15.2
- 15.4
- 15.9
- 15.9
Cross references
- 15.1 : Isa 11.14; Jer 48; Ezek 25.8–11
- 15.2 : Lev 21.5
- 15.3 : Isa 22.4; Jer 48.38; Jon 3.6–8
- 15.5 : Isa 59.7; Jer 48.5, 31, 34
- 15.6 : Isa 19.5–7; Joel 1.10–12
- 15.7 : Isa 30.6
- 15.9 : 2 Kings 17.25; Jer 50.17
