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Isaiah 15 :: New International Version (NIV)

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A Prophecy Against Moab

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:1 - A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:2 - Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:4 - Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 - My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:6 - The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:7 - So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:9 - The waters of Dimon[fn] are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon[fn]— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
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