ISAIAH 15 [†]An  w oracle concerning  f Moab.

Because  g Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone;

because  h Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,

Moab is undone.

2[†] He has gone up to the temple, [1] and to  i Dibon,

to the high places [2] to weep;

over  j Nebo and over  i Medeba

Moab  k wails.

On every head is  l 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  m Heshbon and  m Elealeh cry out;

their voice is heard as far as  n 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  n Eglath-shelishiyah.

For at the  o 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 [3] 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.