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Isaiah 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Isa 15:1

Isa 15:1An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night Moab is undone.

Isa 15:2

Isa 15:2The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Med'eba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;

Isa 15:3

Isa 15:3in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.

Isa 15:4

Isa 15:4Heshbon and Ele-a'leh 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; his fugitives flee to Zo'ar, to Eg'lath-shelish'iyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horona'im they raise a cry of destruction;

Isa 15:6

Isa 15:6the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure 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 round the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Egla'im, the wailing reaches to Beer-e'lim.

Isa 15:9

Isa 15:9For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; yet 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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