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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Isaiah 15

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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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