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Isaiah 15 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Judgment on Moab

Isa 15:1

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Moab:

Because in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;

Because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

Isa 15:2

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep.

Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba;

Everyone’s head is shaved, and every beard is cut off [in mourning].

Isa 15:3

In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth;

On their [flat] housetops and in their open squares

Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

Isa 15:4

Heshbon and Elealeh [cities claimed by Moab] cry out;

Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz.

Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out;

Moab’s soul trembles within him.

Isa 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab;

His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.

For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;

For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction.

Isa 15:6

For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.

Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;

There is no green thing.

Isa 15:7

Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored away

They carry off over the Brook of the Willows.

Isa 15:8

For the cry of distress has echoed around the territory of Moab;

The wailing goes as far as Eglaim and the mournful cry to Beer-elim.

Isa 15:9

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;

Yet I will bring even more woes on Dimon—

A lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.

AMP Footnotes
I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.
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