Isaiah 15 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Judgment on Moab

15 The pronouncement concerning (A)Moab:

Certainly in a night (B)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
2 [a]The people have gone up to the [b]temple and to (C)Dibon, 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 put on (E)sackcloth;
(F)On their housetops and in their public squares
Everyone is wailing, [c](G)overcome with weeping.
4 (H)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the [d]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;
Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress (K)over their collapse.
6 For the (L)waters of Nimrim are [e]desolate.
Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died,
There is (M)no greenery.
7 Therefore the (N)abundance which they have acquired and stored up,
They carry it off over the brook of [f]Arabim.
8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of [g]blood;
I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,
A (O)lion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Lit He has gone; i.e., Moab, meaning the people of Moab
  2. Isaiah 15:2 Lit house
  3. Isaiah 15:3 Lit going down in weeping
  4. Isaiah 15:4 Another reading is the loins of
  5. Isaiah 15:6 Lit desolations
  6. Isaiah 15:7 Or the poplars
  7. Isaiah 15:9 Heb dam (a wordplay)

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 15:1 : Is 11:14; 25:10; Jer 48:1; Ezek 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11
  2. Isaiah 15:1 : Num 21:28
  3. Isaiah 15:2 : Jer 48:18, 22
  4. Isaiah 15:2 : Lev 21:5; Jer 48:37
  5. Isaiah 15:3 : Jon 3:6-8
  6. Isaiah 15:3 : Jer 48:38
  7. Isaiah 15:3 : Is 22:4
  8. Isaiah 15:4 : Num 21:28; 32:3; Jer 48:34
  9. Isaiah 15:5 : Jer 48:34
  10. Isaiah 15:5 : Jer 48:5
  11. Isaiah 15:5 : Is 59:7; Jer 4:20
  12. Isaiah 15:6 : Is 19:5-7; Jer 48:34
  13. Isaiah 15:6 : Joel 1:10-12; 2:3
  14. Isaiah 15:7 : Is 30:6; Jer 48:36
  15. Isaiah 15:9 : 2 Kin 17:25; Jer 50:17

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