UST ISA Chapter 15

15 Yahweh gave this message about Moab:

Enemies will destroy the cities of Ar and Kir in Moab in a single night

and leave them in ruins.

2 The Moabites will go up to their temple,

and the people of the city of Dimon will go up to their hilltop shrines to weep.

The people of Moab will wail about what happens to the towns of Nebo and Medeba.

They will shave their heads and cut off their beards to show that they are grieving.

3 They will wear sackcloth when they go out in public.

They will wail on their rooftops and in their city squares.

People will be weeping as they come down

into the cities from the temple and the shrines.

4 The people of the cities of Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out;

people as far away as Jahaz will hear them wailing.

The Moabite soldiers will shout in distress,

and they will tremble with fear.

5 I feel very sorry for the people of Moab.

Its refugees will flee as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah.

They will weep as they go up on the road to Luhith.

All along the road to Horonaim, they will cry out because enemies have destroyed their land.

6 The water in the Nimrim brook will dry up.

The grass will wither, the plants will die,

and nothing green will remain.

7 So the people will take their valuable possessions and the food they have saved

and carry those things across the Wadi of the Willows.

8 People will cry out throughout the whole territory of Moab.

There will be wailing from Eglaim in the south

all the way to Beer Elim in the north.

9 The stream near Dimon will be red with the blood of those who have died,

but Yahweh will bring even more trouble on Dimon.

He will send lions to attack those who try to escape from Moab

and those who remain in that land.