<< Isaiah 15 >>
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Judgment on Moab

1 The oracle concerning Moab.
 Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
 Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
 Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
 Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;
 On their housetops and in their squares
 Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
 Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
 Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
 His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
 His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
 For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
 Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
 Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out,
 There is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up
 They carry off over the brook of Arabim.
8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
 Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood;
 Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,
 A lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
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