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In their streets they have girded themselves with (A)sackcloth;
(B)On their rooftops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, [a](C)dissolved in weeping.
(D)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore [b]the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;
His soul trembles within him.
My heart cries out for Moab;
Those who flee from her are as far as (E)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the (F)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress (G)over their destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:3 Lit going down in weeping
  2. Isaiah 15:4 Or the loins of