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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
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Isaiah 15

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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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