Isaiah 15

International Standard Version

“For Ir^[b] in Moab is destroyed in a night,
    and Moab^[c] is ruined!
Because Ir^[d] in Moab is destroyed in a single night,
    Moab is ruined!
² He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon,
    to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
    Moab wails.
His head is completely^[e] bald,
    and^[f] every beard is shaved off.
³ In its streets they wear sackcloth;
    on its rooftops and in its squares
        everyone wails and falls down^[g] weeping.
⁴ Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
    their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the loins^[h] of Moab cry aloud;
    its heart quakes for itself.
⁵ My heart cries out over Moab;
    her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
        as far as Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent to Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction.
⁶ The Nimrim waters are desolate;
    the grass is withered,
its vegetation gone;
        there is^[i] no foliage left.
⁷ Therefore the wealth they have acquired
    and what they have stored up—
they carry them away
    over the Arab^[j] Wadi.^[k]
8 For the cry has gone out
    along the border of Moab;
her wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
    her wailing reaches as far as Beer-elim.
⁹ The Dibon^[l] streams are full of blood;
    but I will bring upon Dibon^[m] even more—
a lion will pounce^[n] upon those of Moab who escape,
upon^[o] those who remain in the land.”