Isaiah 15:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ For the waters of Dibon are full of blood, yet I will bring upon Dibon even more— a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; yet I [the Lord] will bring even more on Dimon–a lion upon those of Moab who escape and upon the remnant of the land.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.

Common English Bible

⁹ The waters of Dibon are full of blood. But I will bring still more upon Dibon: a lion for Moab’s survivors, for the remaining few in the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Because the waters of Dibon have been filled with blood, I will place even more upon Dibon: those from Moab who flee the lion, and the survivors of the earth.

Isaiah 15:9 Cross References

2 Kings 17:25

When they first settled there, they did not worship the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them that killed some of them.

Amos 5:19

as if someone fled from a lion and was met by a bear or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall and was bitten by a snake.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Leviticus 26:28

I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:24

then I, too, will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:18

And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Isaiah 15:8

For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Eglaim; the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

Numbers 21:30

So their posterity perished from Heshbon to Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Medeba.”