Isaiah 15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Isaiah 15 An Oracle concerning Moab

¹ An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

² Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. Every head is shaved; every beard is shorn;

³ in the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.

⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins of Moab quiver; his soul trembles.

⁵ My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;

⁶ the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered; the new growth fails; vegetation is no more.

⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Wadi of the Willows.

⁸ For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Eglaim; the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

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.