Isaiah 15 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

A Message about Moab

Isa 15:1This message came to me concerning Moab:
In one night the town of Ar will be leveled,
and the city of Kir will be destroyed.

Isa 15:2

Isa 15:2Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn.
They will go to their sacred shrines to weep.
They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba,
shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards.

Isa 15:3

Isa 15:3They will wear burlap as they wander the streets.
From every home and public square will come the sound of wailing.

Isa 15:4

Isa 15:4The people of Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out;
their voices will be heard as far away as Jahaz!
The bravest warriors of Moab will cry out in utter terror.
They will be helpless with fear.

Isa 15:5

Isa 15:5My heart weeps for Moab.
Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah.
Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith.
Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim.

Isa 15:6

Isa 15:6Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up!
The grassy banks are scorched.
The tender plants are gone;
nothing green remains.

Isa 15:7

Isa 15:7The people grab their possessions
and carry them across the Ravine of Willows.

Isa 15:8

Isa 15:8A cry of distress echoes through the land of Moab
from one end to the other—
from Eglaim to Beer-elim.

Isa 15:9

Isa 15:9The stream near Dibon[fn] runs red with blood,
but I am still not finished with Dibon!
Lions will hunt down the survivors—
both those who try to escape
and those who remain behind.

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

NLT Footnotes

(15:9)

As in Dead Sea Scrolls, some Greek manuscripts, and Latin Vulgate; Masoretic Text reads Dimon; also in 15:9b.

Full copyright information is provided here. Visit the New Living Translation website.

For more information on this translation, see the NLT Preface.