> [[isaiah-14|← Previous]] | [[isaiah-00|TOC]] | [[isaiah-16|Next →]] --- # Isaiah, Chapter 15 ## Chapter 15 ### Moab 1 Oracle on Moab: ^isaiah-15-1 Laid waste in a night, Ar of Moab is destroyed; Laid waste in a night, Kir of Moab is destroyed. 2 Daughter Dibon has gone up ^isaiah-15-2 to the high places to weep; Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab is wailing. Every head is shaved, every beard sheared off. 3 In the streets they wear sackcloth, ^isaiah-15-3 and on the rooftops; In the squares everyone wails, streaming with tears. 4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, ^isaiah-15-4 they are heard as far as Jahaz. At this the loins of Moab tremble, his soul quivers within him; 5 My heart cries out for Moab, ^isaiah-15-5 his fugitives reach Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah: The ascent of Luhith they ascend weeping; On the way to Horonaim they utter rending cries; 6 The waters of Nimrim ^isaiah-15-6 have become a waste, The grass is withered, new growth is gone, nothing is green. 7 So now whatever they have acquired or stored away ^isaiah-15-7 they carry across the Wadi of the Poplars. 8 The cry has gone round ^isaiah-15-8 the territory of Moab; As far as Eglaim his wailing, even at Beer-elim his wailing. 9 The waters of Dimon are filled with blood, ^isaiah-15-9 but I will bring still more upon Dimon: Lions for those who are fleeing from Moab and for those who remain in the land! \* (15:1] – [16:14) Both the historical situation reflected in this oracle against Moab and the date of composition are uncertain. Variants of the same poem are found in [Jer 48], and there are connections with [Nm 21:27] – [30] as well. \* (15:2) Shaved…sheared off: traditional signs of grief. \* (15:9) There is a play on words between “Dimon” and *dam*, the Hebrew word for blood. a. (15:2) [Jer 48:37]; ([[ezekiel-07|Ez 7]]:18]; [Am 8:10]. b. (15:3) [[isaiah-22|Is 22]]:12; [Jer 48:38]. c. (15:4) [Jer 48:34]. d. (15:5) [Jer 48:5], [34]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[isaiah-14|← Previous]] | [[isaiah-00|TOC]] | [[isaiah-16|Next →]]