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Isaiah 15:1-16:14 — Prophecy Against Moab

Isa.15.1-16.14

¹An oracle concerning Moab: Because in a night Ar of Moab is devastated, it is silenced; because in a night Kir of Moab is devastated, it is silenced. ²They go up to the temple , and Dibon to the high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. On every head is baldness; every beard is cut off. ³In its streets they clothe themselves with sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails, weeping profusely. ⁴Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him. ⁵My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up with weeping; for on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction. ⁶For the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; for the grass is dried up, the new grass is gone, and there is no green thing. ⁷Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have stored up, they carry away over the Brook of the Willows. ⁸For the cry has gone around the border of Moab; its wailing reaches to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer-elim. ⁹For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; yet I will bring more upon Dimon: a lion upon the fugitives of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Chapter 16

¹Send lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela by way of the wilderness, to the mountain of Daughter Zion. ²Like fluttering birds, like a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon. ³Bring counsel, execute a ruling; set your shade like the night in the midst of noonday. Hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive. ⁴Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a hiding place for them from the face of the destroyer. For the oppressor is no more, destruction has ceased, and those who trample have vanished from the land. ⁵Then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and one will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness. ⁶We have heard of the pride of Moab—how very proud he is!—of his haughtiness, his pride, and his arrogance; his boastings are empty. ⁷Therefore let Moab wail for Moab; let everyone wail. Mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, utterly stricken. ⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its choice branches, which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness; its shoots spread out and passed over the sea. ⁹Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for upon your summer fruit and your harvest the battle shout has fallen. ¹⁰Joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no joyful shouts are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have made the shouting cease. ¹¹Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost being for Kir-heres. ¹²And it will come to pass, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, and comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail. ¹³This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past. ¹⁴But now the LORD speaks, saying, 'In three years, as a hired worker counts them, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt , along with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very few and feeble.'

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4/11/2026

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