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Isaiah 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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An Oracle Concerning Moab

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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.

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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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.

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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.

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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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:6 - the waters of Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.

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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.

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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.

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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.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
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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