Isa 15 | LEB | STEP | An oracle of Moab: Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed; because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed.

Isaiah 15

Oracle of Judgment on Moab

1 An oracle of Moab:

Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed;
because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed.
2 It has gone up to the house, ^{▼▼Or “temple”}
and Dibon to the high places
for weeping over Nebo,
and Moab wails over Medeba.
⌞Every head is bald⌟, ^{▼▼Literally “On all its heads baldness”}
every beard is shaved.
3 They gird themselves with sackcloth in its streets;
on its roofs and public squares everyone wails,
going down in weeping.
4 And Heshbon and Elealeh cry ^{▼▼The Hebrew is singular} out,
their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out;
its soul quivers ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for “cry out” and “quiver” are similar} for him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
its fugitives flee up to Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping;
for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands;
for the grass has withered,
the vegetation has vanished,
there is no greenness.
7 Therefore they carry the abundance it has made
and their store of goods over the river of the poplars.
8 For a cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab,
her wailing is heard as far as Eglaim,
and her wailing as far as Beer Elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon ^{▼▼One of the Dead Sea Scrolls reads “Dibon” here} are full of blood;
but I will place added things upon Dimon:
a lion for the survivors ^{▼▼Hebrew “survivor”} of Moab
and for the remnant of the land.