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Isaiah 15
Berean Standard Bible
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The Burden against Moab
Verse1This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
Verse2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
Verse3In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
Verse4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
Verse5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
Verse6The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
Verse7So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
Verse8For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.
Verse9The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
Translator notes (3)
- Verse 5: Or Zoar, like a heifer three years of age.
- Verse 7: Or Poplars
- Verse 9: MT, twice in this verse; DSS and Vulgate Dibon; Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.