LEB ISA Chapter 15

Oracle of Judgment on Moab

15 An oracle of Moab:

• Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed;
  • because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed.
  • 2 It has gone up to the house,[fn] and Dibon to the high places
• for weeping over Nebo,
  • and Moab wails over Medeba.
• Every head is bald ,[fn]
  • every beard is shaved.
  • 3 They gird themselves with sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails,
    • going down in weeping.
  • 4 And Heshbon and Elealeh cry[fn] out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;
• therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out;
  • its soul quivers[fn] for him.
  • 5 My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives flee up to Zoar,
  • to Eglath-shelishiyah.
• For at the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping;
  • for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
  • 6 For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for the grass has withered,
• the vegetation has vanished,
  • there is no greenness.
  • 7 Therefore they carry the abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.
  • 8 For a cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab, her wailing is heard as far as Eglaim,
  • and her wailing as far as Beer Elim.
  • 9 For the waters of Dimon[fn] are full of blood; but I will place added things upon Dimon:
• a lion for the survivors[fn] of Moab
  • and for the remnant of the land.