Isaiah 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

An Oracle Concerning Moab

Isa 15:1An 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.

Isa 15:2

Isa 15:2He 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;

Isa 15:3

Isa 15:3in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.

Isa 15:4

Isa 15:4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.

Isa 15:5

Isa 15:5My 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;

Isa 15:6

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

Isa 15:7

Isa 15:7Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.

Isa 15:8

Isa 15:8For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

Isa 15:9

Isa 15:9For 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.

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ESV Footnotes

(15:2)

Hebrew the house

(15:2)

Or temple, even Dibon to the high places

(15:9)

Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon; twice in this verse

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