‏ Isaiah 15

Judgment on Moab

1 The pronouncement concerning aMoab:
Certainly in a night bAr of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

2
Lit He has gone; i.e., Moab, meaning the people of Moab
The people have gone up to the
Lit house
temple and to eDibon, to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is fbald and every beard is cut off.

3 In their streets they have put on gsackcloth;
hOn their housetops and in their public squares
Everyone is wailing,
Lit going down in weeping
jovercome with weeping.

4 kHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the
Another reading is the loins of
armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.

5 My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as mZoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the nascent of Luhith weeping;
Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress oover their collapse.

6 For the pwaters of Nimrim are
Lit desolations
desolate.
Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died,
There is rno greenery.

7 Therefore the sabundance which they have acquired and stored up,
They carry it off over the brook of
Or the poplars
Arabim.

8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.

9 For the waters of Dimon are full of
Heb dam (a wordplay)
blood;
I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,
A vlion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.

‏ Isaiah 16

Prophecy of Moab’s Devastation


1 wSend the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,
From
I.e., Petra in Edom
ySela by way of the wilderness to the zmountain of the daughter of Zion.

2 Then, like aafluttering birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of abMoab will be at the crossing places of the acArnon.

3
Lit Bring
Give us advice, make a decision;
Lit Set
Cast your afshadow like night
Lit in the midst of the noon
at high noon;
ahHide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.

4 “Let the
As in most ancient versions; MT My outcasts, as for Moab
outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the oppressor has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
ajOppressors have been removed from the land.

5 A akthrone will be established in faithfulness,
And a judge will sit on it in trustworthiness in the tent of alDavid;
Moreover, he will seek justice,
And be prompt in righteousness.


6 amWe have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;
Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury;
anHis idle boasts are
Lit not so
false.

7 Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.
You will moan for the apraisin cakes of aqKir-hareseth
As those who are utterly stricken.

8 For the fields of arHeshbon have
Or dried out
withered, the vines of atSibmah as well;
The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters
Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;
auIts
I.e., parts of a climbing plant that attach to its support
tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

9 Therefore I will awweep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;
I will drench you with my tears, axHeshbon and Elealeh;
For the shouting over your aysummer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

10 azGladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;
In the bavineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting,
No bbtreader treads out wine in the presses,
For I have made the shouting to cease.

11 Therefore my
Lit entrails murmur
bdinner being sounds like a harp for Moab.
And my
Lit inward parts
heart for Kir-hareseth.

12 So it will come about when Moab bfpresents himself,
When he bgtires himself upon his bhhigh place
And comes to his sanctuary to pray,
That he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as
Lit the years of a hired
bja hired worker would count them, the glory of bkMoab will become contemptible along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and
Lit not mighty
impotent.”
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