Isaiah 15
New American Standard Bible 1995
Judgment on Moab
15 The [a]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 [b]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, [c](G)dissolved in tears.
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;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress (K)over their ruin.
6 For the (L)waters of Nimrim are [e]desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass [f]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 [g]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 [h]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 Or burden of
- Isaiah 15:2 Lit house
- Isaiah 15:3 Lit going down in weeping
- Isaiah 15:4 Another reading is the loins of
- Isaiah 15:6 Lit desolations
- Isaiah 15:6 Lit come to an end
- Isaiah 15:7 Or the poplars
- Isaiah 15:9 Heb dam (a wordplay)
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