Isaiah 15 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Judgment on Moab

Isa 15:1The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.

Isa 15:2

Isa 15:2The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

Isa 15:3

Isa 15:3In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

Isa 15:4

Isa 15:4Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

Isa 15:5

Isa 15:5My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

Isa 15:6

Isa 15:6The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

Isa 15:7

Isa 15:7For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.

Isa 15:8

Isa 15:8For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.

Isa 15:9

Isa 15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Isaiah 15 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Judgment on Moab

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