Isaiah 15

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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The oracle concerning Moab

¹The oracle concerning Moab. \q In a single night Ar of Moab is stripped bare and silenced; \q in a single night Kir of Moab is stripped bare and silenced. ²Up to the temple they go, and Dibon to the high places, to weep; \q for Nebo and for Medeba Moab wails. \q Every head among them is bald, every beard clipped short. ³They have tied sackcloth on in its streets; \q on its roofs and in its open squares the whole people wails, dissolving in tears. ⁴Heshbon raises a cry, and Elealeh with it; \q the sound carries as far as Jahaz. \q That is why Moab’s soldiers shout in alarm, \q and Moab shudders to the depths of its being. ⁵My heart cries out for Moab; \q those fleeing from it reach Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. \q Up the climb to Luhith they go, weeping all the way; \q along the road to Horonaim they lift a cry of disaster. ⁶The waters of Nimrim have turned to waste ground. \q The grass has dried out, the fresh shoots have failed, \q and not a green thing remains. ⁷That is why they haul away the riches they had amassed \q and the goods they had laid by, \q across the Wadi of the Poplars. ⁸A cry runs all around the borders of Moab; \q the wailing is heard at Eglaim, \q the wailing is heard at Beer-elim. ⁹The waters of Dimon are filled with blood, \q and I will add yet more to Dimon’s troubles: \q a lion against the survivors of Moab, \q against whoever is left in the land.