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Isaiah 15

The Burden against Moab

(Jeremiah 48:1–47)

1The burden of Moab. For in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is brought to ruin; for in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, it is brought to ruin.

2He has gone up to the house^a, and Dibon, to the high places, to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab howls; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
3In their streets they have girded on sackcloth; on their housetops and in their broad places everyone howls, going down in weeping.
4And Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul^b is faint within him.
5My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, a heifer of three years; for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping he goes up by it; for the way of Horonaim, a cry of destruction they raise up.
6For the waters of Nimrim are desolations; for the grass is withered, the herbage is finished, there is no green thing.
7Therefore the abundance he has made, and their stored-up things, over the brook of the willows they carry them away.
8For the cry has gone round the border of Moab; as far as Eglaim its howling, and to Beer-elim its howling.
9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will set upon Dimon additions, for the escaped of Moab a lion, and for the remnant of the ground^c.