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Isaiah 15
An Oracle Concerning Moab
1 An (a)oracle concerning (b)Moab.
Because (c)Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone;
because (d)Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone.
2 He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (e)Dibon,
to the high places[b] to weep;
over (f)Nebo and over (g)Medeba
Moab (h)wails.
On every head is (i)baldness;
every beard is shorn;
3 in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
4 (j)Heshbon and (k)Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as (l)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to (m)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (n)ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to (o)Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
6 the waters of (p)Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.
7 (q)Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.
8 For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of (r)Dibon[c] are full of blood;
for I will bring upon Dibon even more,
(s)a lion for those of Moab who escape,
for the remnant of the land.
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