An Oracle Concerning Moab
15 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Moab.
Because (C)Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone;
because (D)Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone.
2 He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (E)Dibon,
to the high places[b] to weep;
over (F)Nebo and over (G)Medeba
Moab (H)wails.
On every head is (I)baldness;
every beard is shorn;
3 in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
4 (J)Heshbon and (K)Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as (L)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to (M)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (N)ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to (O)Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
6 the waters of (P)Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.
7 (Q)Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.
8 For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of (R)Dibon[c] are full of blood;
for I will bring upon Dibon even more,
(S)a lion for those of Moab who escape,
for the remnant of the land.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
- Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
- Isaiah 15:9 Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon (twice in this verse)
Cross references
- Isaiah 15:1 : [See ch. 14:28 above]; See ch. 13:1
- Isaiah 15:1 : See Jer. 48; Ezek. 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph. 2:8, 9
- Isaiah 15:1 : Num. 21:15, 28
- Isaiah 15:1 : [ch. 16:7, 11]
- Isaiah 15:2 : Num. 21:30
- Isaiah 15:2 : Deut. 34:1
- Isaiah 15:2 : Num. 21:30
- Isaiah 15:2 : ch. 13:6
- Isaiah 15:2 : See ch. 3:24
- Isaiah 15:4 : Num. 32:37
- Isaiah 15:4 : Num. 32:37
- Isaiah 15:4 : Jer. 48:34
- Isaiah 15:5 : [See ver. 4 above]; Jer. 48:34
- Isaiah 15:5 : Jer. 48:5
- Isaiah 15:5 : Jer. 48:5
- Isaiah 15:6 : [Num. 32:36]
- Isaiah 15:7 : Jer. 48:36
- Isaiah 15:9 : [ver. 2]
- Isaiah 15:9 : [2 Kgs. 17:25; Jer. 50:17]