“My(A) heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
Like [a]a three-year-old heifer.
For (B)by the Ascent of Luhith
They will go up with weeping;
For in the way of Horonaim
They will raise up a cry of destruction,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:5 Or The Third Eglath, an unknown city, Jer. 48:34

Therefore I will bewail the vine of Sibmah,
With the weeping of Jazer;
I will drench you with my tears,
(A)O Heshbon and Elealeh;
For [a]battle cries have fallen
Over your summer fruits and your harvest.

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  1. Isaiah 16:9 Or shouting has

Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
(A)I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

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11 (A)My eyes fail with tears,
My [a]heart is troubled;
(B)My [b]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (C)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
  2. Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver

18 They will also (A)be girded with sackcloth;
Horror will cover them;
Shame will be on every face,
Baldness on all their heads.

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Mourning for Israel and Judah

Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(A)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,

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