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Isaiah 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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An Oracle Concerning Moab

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:1 - An oracle concerning Moab.
Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone;
because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:2 - He has gone up to the temple,[fn] and to Dibon,
to the high places[fn] to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
On every head is baldness;
every beard is shorn;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:4 - Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 - My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:6 - the waters of Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:7 - Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:9 - For the waters of Dibon[fn] are full of blood;
for I will bring upon Dibon even more,
a lion for those of Moab who escape,
for the remnant of the land.
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew the house
Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon; twice in this verse
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