Isaiah 15
15
God’s Message to Moab
1This is a message about Moab:
In one night armies took the wealth from Ar in Moab.
That night the city was destroyed.
In one night armies took the wealth from Kir in Moab.
That night the city was destroyed.
2The people of Dibon go to the places of worship to cry.
The people of Moab cry for the cities of Nebo and Medeba.
Everyone has shaved his head and beard to show how sad he is.
3In the streets at Moab they wear rough cloth to show their sadness.
On the roofs# In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship and as a place to sleep in the summer. and in the public squares,
they are crying loudly.
4People in the cities Heshbon and Elealeh cry out loud.
You can hear their voices far away in the city Jahaz.
Even the soldiers are frightened.
They are shaking from fear.
5My heart cries with sorrow for Moab.
Its people run away to Zoar for safety.
They run to Eglath Shelishiyah.
People are going up the mountain road to Luhith.
They are crying as they go.
People are going on the road to Horonaim.
They cry out loud over their destruction.
6But the water of Nimrim has dried up.
The grass has dried up.
All the plants are dead.
Nothing green is left.
7So the people gather up what they have saved.
They carry those things and cross the Ravine of the Poplars.
8Crying is heard everywhere in Moab.
Their crying is heard as far away as the city Eglaim.
Their crying is heard as far away as Beer Elim.
9The water of the city Dibon is full of blood.
And I, the Lord, will bring even more troubles to Dibon.
A few people living in Moab have escaped the enemy.
But I will send lions to kill them.
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Isaiah 15
15
XV
1THE ORACLE CONCERNING MOAB.
Surely in a destructive night shall Ar of Moab be cut off;
Surely in a destructive night shall Kir of Moab be cut off.
2He goeth up to Bajith and to Debon, the high places, to weep:
Over Nebo, and over Medeba, shall Moab howl:
On every head there is baldness; every beard is shorn.
3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth;
On their house-tops, and in their main-streets,
Every one shrieketh, melting into tears.
4And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh;
Unto Jahaz is their voice heard:
Therefore do the warriors of Moab wail;
Their soul shuddereth within them.
5My heart crieth out for Moab,
Her fugitives wander even unto Zoar,
Unto Eglath-Schalischiia;
Yea the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they ascend;
Yea in the way of Horonaim shall they raise a cry of destruction.
6For the waters of Nimrim shall become desolate:
For the pasture is withered, the tender plant faileth, the green herb is no more.
7Therefore the remnant which they possess,
And that which they have laid up;
Shall they carry off to the valley of willows.
8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab;
Unto Eglaim her lamentation;
And to Beer-Elim her lamentation.
9Yea the waters of Dimon are full of blood:
Yet will I bring more evils upon Dimon;
Upon them of Moab that shall have escaped a lion,
And upon the remnant of the land.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.