Isaiah 15

An Oracle Concerning Moab

1 An [See ch. 14:28above] oracle concerning See Jer. 48;Ezek. 25:8-11;Amos 2:1-3;Zeph. 2:8,9Moab.

Because Num. 21:15,28Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone;

because [ch. 16:7,11]Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone.

2 He has gone up to the temple,15:2 Hebrew the house and to Num. 21:30Dibon,

to the high places15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places to weep;

over Deut. 34:1Nebo and over Num. 21:30Medeba

Moab ch. 13:6wails.

On every head is See ch. 3:24baldness;

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 Num. 32:37Heshbon and Num. 32:37Elealeh cry out;

their voice is heard as far as Jer. 48:34Jahaz;

therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;

his soul trembles.

5 My heart cries out for Moab;

her fugitives flee to Zoar,

to [See ver. 4above] Eglath-shelishiyah.

For at the Jer. 48:5ascent of Luhith

they go up weeping;

on the road to Jer. 48:5Horonaim

they raise a cry of destruction;

6 the waters of [Num. 32:36]Nimrim

are a desolation;

the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,

the greenery is no more.

7 Jer. 48:36Therefore 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 [ver. 2] Dibon15:9 Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon; twice in this verse are full of blood;

for I will bring upon Dibon even more,

[2 Kgs. 17:25;Jer. 50:17]a lion for those of Moab who escape,

for the remnant of the land.