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An Oracle Concerning Moab

 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.
² He has gone up to the temple,^[a]and to Dibon,
to the high places^[b] to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
On every head is baldness;
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 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
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;
⁶ the waters of Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.
⁷ Therefore 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 Dibon^[c] 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.

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
2. Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
3. Isaiah 15:9 Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon; twice in this verse

Cross references:

1. Isaiah 15:1 : [See ch. 14:28 above]; See ch. 13:1
2. Isaiah 15:1 : See Jer. 48; Ezek. 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph. 2:8, 9
3. Isaiah 15:1 : Num. 21:15, 28
4. Isaiah 15:1 : [ch. 16:7, 11]
5. Isaiah 15:2 : Num. 21:30
6. Isaiah 15:2 : Deut. 34:1
7. Isaiah 15:2 : Num. 21:30
8. Isaiah 15:2 : ch. 13:6
9. Isaiah 15:2 : See ch. 3:24
10. Isaiah 15:4 : Num. 32:37
11. Isaiah 15:4 : Num. 32:37
12. Isaiah 15:4 : Jer. 48:34
13. Isaiah 15:5 : [See ver. 4 above]; Jer. 48:34
14. Isaiah 15:5 : Jer. 48:5
15. Isaiah 15:5 : Jer. 48:5
16. Isaiah 15:6 : [Num. 32:36]
17. Isaiah 15:7 : Jer. 48:36
18. Isaiah 15:9 : [ver. 2]
19. Isaiah 15:9 : [2 Kgs. 17:25; Jer. 50:17]