Isaiah 15

A Pronouncement against Moab

1 A pronouncement concerning Moab:  * 15:1–7 Gn 19:31–37; Is 11:14; 25:10; Jr 48:1–38; Ezk 25:8–11; Am 2:1–3; Zph 2:8–9

Ar in Moab is devastated,  * 15:1 Nm 21:28

destroyed in a night.

Kir in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night.

2 Dibon went up to its temple

to weep at its high places.

Moab wails on Nebo and at  * 15:2 Or wails over Nebo and over  Medeba.

Every head is shaved;

every beard is chopped short.

3 In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.  * 15:4 Nm 21:28; 32:3; Jr 48:34

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out,

and they tremble.

5 My heart cries out over Moab,

whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,  * 15:5 Gn 19:21–22

to Eglath-shelishiyah;

they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping;

they raise a cry of destruction

on the road to Horonaim.

6 The Waters of Nimrim  * 15:6 Nm 32:3,36; Jos 13:27 are desolate;

the grass is withered, the foliage is gone,

and the vegetation has vanished.

7 So they carry their wealth and belongings

over the Wadi of the Willows.  * 15:7 Is 30:6; Jr 48:36

8 For their cry echoes

throughout the territory of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

their wailing reaches Beer-elim.

9 The Waters of Dibon  * 15:9 DSS, some LXX mss, Vg; MT reads Dimon, twice in this v. are full of blood,  * 15:9 2Kg 3:22–23

but I will bring on Dibon even more than this —

a lion for those who escape from Moab,

and for the survivors in the land.  * 15:9 2Sm 23:20; 1Ch 11:22