Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. 2 Dibon[a] has gone up to the temple, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, 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;[b] 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, the verdure 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[c] are full of blood; yet I will bring upon Dibon[d] even more— a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.
Footnotes
a. Isaiah 15:2 Cn: Heb the house and Dibon
b. Isaiah 15:4 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb the armed men of Moab cry aloud
c. Isaiah 15:9 Q Ms Vg Compare Syr: MT Dimon
d. Isaiah 15:9 Q Ms Vg Compare Syr: MT Dimon
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