Isaiah 15

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Literal

The Burden against Moab

¹This is the burden against Moab:

Ar in Moab is ruined,

destroyed in a night!

Kir in Moab is devastated,

destroyed in a night!

¹The burden of Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it has been cut off! Because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, it has been cut off!

²Dibon 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.

²He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab is wailing. On all its heads is baldness, and every beard is cut off.

³In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on the rooftops and in the public squares

they all wail, falling down weeping.

³In its streets they have girded on sackcloth; on its rooftops and in the square, everyone wails, going down with weeping.

⁴Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;

their voices are heard as far as Jahaz.

Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out;

their souls tremble within.

⁴And Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; as far as Jahaz their voice is heard. Upon thus the armed ones of Moab cry out; his soul trembles within him.

⁵My heart cries out over Moab;

her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

as far as Eglath-shelishiyah.^a

With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith;

they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

⁵My heart cries out for Moab, for her fugitives are as far as Zoar, to Eglath-Shelishiyyah; for the Ascent of Luhith—with weeping he goes up on it; for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry from destruction.

⁶The waters of Nimrim are dried up,

and the grass is withered;

the vegetation is gone,

and the greenery is no more.

⁶For the waters of Nimrim have become desolations, for the grass has withered away; the vegetation is finished—nothing green is there.

⁷So they carry their wealth and belongings

over the Brook of the Willows.^a

⁷Upon thus, the abundance he made and their store, they carry them over the Brook of the Willows.

⁸For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab.

Their wailing reaches Eglaim;

it is heard in Beer-elim.

⁸For the outcry has gone all around the borders of Moab; as far as Eglaim is her howling, and her howling is in Beer-elim.

⁹The waters of Dimon^a 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.

⁹For the waters of Dimon have been full of blood, for I will put upon Dimon added things: A lion for the survivor of Moab, and for the remnant of the land.