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Isaiah 15
A Prophecy Against Moab(a)
1 A prophecy(b) against Moab:(c)
Ar(d) in Moab is ruined,(e)
destroyed in a night!
Kir(f) in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon(g) goes up to its temple,
to its high places(h) to weep;
Moab wails(i) over Nebo(j) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(k)
and every beard cut off.(l)
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;(m)
on the roofs(n) and in the public squares(o)
they all wail,(p)
prostrate with weeping.(q)
4 Heshbon(r) and Elealeh(s) cry out,
their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.(t)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out(u) over Moab;(v)
her fugitives(w) flee as far as Zoar,(x)
as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim(y)
they lament their destruction.(z)
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up(aa)
and the grass is withered;(ab)
the vegetation is gone(ac)
and nothing green is left.(ad)
7 So the wealth they have acquired(ae) and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer(af) Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon[a] are full of blood,
but I will bring still more upon Dimon[b]—
a lion(ag) upon the fugitives of Moab(ah)
and upon those who remain in the land.
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