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Isaiah 15
New International Version

### A Prophecy Against Moab(A)

15 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.

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.
2. Isaiah 15:9 Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 15:1 : 16:6-12pp — Jer 48:29-36
2. Isaiah 15:1 : S Isa 13:1
3. Isaiah 15:1 : Nu 22:3-6; S Dt 23:6; S Isa 11:14
4. Isaiah 15:1 : S Nu 21:15
5. Isaiah 15:1 : S Nu 17:12; Isa 25:12; 26:5; Jer 48:24, 41; 51:58
6. Isaiah 15:1 : S 2Ki 3:25
7. Isaiah 15:2 : S Nu 21:30
8. Isaiah 15:2 : 1Ki 11:7; Isa 16:12; Jer 48:35
9. Isaiah 15:2 : S Isa 13:6; 65:14
10. Isaiah 15:2 : S Nu 32:38
11. Isaiah 15:2 : S Lev 13:40; S Job 1:20
12. Isaiah 15:2 : S 2Sa 10:4
13. Isaiah 15:3 : S Isa 3:24
14. Isaiah 15:3 : S Jos 2:8
15. Isaiah 15:3 : Jer 48:38
16. Isaiah 15:3 : Isa 14:31; Jer 47:2
17. Isaiah 15:3 : ver 5; Isa 16:9; 22:4; La 2:11; Eze 7:18; Mic 1:8
18. Isaiah 15:4 : S Nu 21:25; S Jos 13:26
19. Isaiah 15:4 : S Nu 32:3
20. Isaiah 15:4 : S Nu 21:23
21. Isaiah 15:5 : S ver 3
22. Isaiah 15:5 : Isa 16:11; Jer 48:31
23. Isaiah 15:5 : S Nu 21:29
24. Isaiah 15:5 : S Ge 13:10
25. Isaiah 15:5 : Jer 48:3, 34
26. Isaiah 15:5 : Jer 4:20; 48:5
27. Isaiah 15:6 : Isa 19:5-7; Jer 48:34
28. Isaiah 15:6 : Ps 37:2; Isa 16:8; 24:4, 7, 11; 33:9; 34:4; 37:27; 40:7; 51:6, 12; Hos 4:3; Joel 1:12
29. Isaiah 15:6 : S Isa 14:17
30. Isaiah 15:6 : Jer 14:5
31. Isaiah 15:7 : Isa 30:6; Jer 48:36
32. Isaiah 15:8 : S Nu 21:16
33. Isaiah 15:9 : S 2Ki 17:25
34. Isaiah 15:9 : Eze 25:8-11

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