Isa 15 | LSB | STEP | The oracle concerning Moab. Surely in a night Ar of Moab is destroyed and ruined; Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyed and ruined.

Isaiah 15

An Oracle Concerning Moab

1 The ^{▼▼Or burden of}oracle concerning Moab.

Surely in a night Ar of Moab is destroyed and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyed and ruined.
2 They have gone up to the ^{▼▼Lit house}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 rooftops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, ^{▼▼Lit going down in weeping}dissolved in weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore ^{▼▼Or the loins of}the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;
His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
Those who flee from her are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress over their destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are ^{▼▼Lit desolations}desolate.
Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has ^{▼▼Lit come to an end}completely ceased,
There is no green thing.
7 Therefore the abundance they have made and stored up
They carry off over the brook of ^{▼▼Or the poplars}Arabim.
8 For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of ^{▼▼Heb dam (a wordplay)}blood;
Surely I will put added woes upon Dimon,
A lion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land.