Isaiah 15

Isaiah 14 Isaiah 16

Isaiah 15 The Passion Translation (TPT)

The Lord’s Judgment of Moab

15 Here is a prophecy concerning Moab:^[a]

    The city of Ar^[b] was devastated, destroyed in the night.
    The city of Kir^[c] was devastated, destroyed in the night.
²The people of Dibon^[d] went to their temple to weep;
    they went up to their high places to lament.
    Moab wails with sorrow over what happened
    to Mount Nebo^[e] and Mount Medeba.^[f]
    Humiliated, every head is shaved bald and every beard cut off.
³    They pour into the streets wearing sackcloth.
    In public and in private,^[g] they fall down sobbing.
⁴The cities of Heshbon^[h] and Elealah^[i] cry out;
    their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz;^[j]
    even the bravest warriors^[k] of Moab are shaken to the core.
⁵My heart cries out for the people of Moab,
    for her fugitives who flee to Zoar^[l] and to Eglath-shelishiyah.^[m]
    Weeping, they climb the upward road to Luhith.^[n]
    Their loud cries of anguish are heard
    all along the way to Horonaim.^[o]
⁶The River Nimrim^[p] has dried up; the grass has withered;
    new growth has failed, and vegetation has vanished.
⁷Therefore, the refugees take with them
    over the Wadi of the Willows
    their possessions and the wealth they have acquired.
⁸From one end of the land to the other, Moab is weeping;
    her wailing reaches to Eglaim^[q] and Beer-Elim.^[r]
⁹For the waters of Dimon^[s] are full of blood,
    but I have something even worse in store for them:
    lions^[t] for the fugitives of Moab
    and upon the remnant of the land!^[u]

Footnotes:

Isaiah 15:1 Moab (“seed of the father”) was a descendant of Lot, conceived out of incest with his daughter (Gen. 19:31-37). The Moabites settled in a region east of the Dead Sea. This chapter shows the heart of the prophet Isaiah as he is painfully grieved over the sorrows coming to Moab. Ruth, a Moabite, had a role in forming the house of David, for she was his great-grandmother (Ruth 4:17-21).
Isaiah 15:1 See Num. 21:28.
Isaiah 15:1 Present-day Al-Kerak Jordan.
Isaiah 15:2 Dibon, present-day Dhiban Jordan, means “wasting.”
Isaiah 15:2 Nebo means “prophet” or “scribe (interpreter).”
Isaiah 15:2 Medeba means “waters of peace (gently flowing)” and is present-day Madaba Jordan.
Isaiah 15:3 Or “on their roofs and in their town squares.”
Isaiah 15:4 Heshbon means “intelligence” or “human reasoning.”
Isaiah 15:4 Elealeh means “ascent of God” or “God has ascended.”
Isaiah 15:4 Jahaz means “trampled on.”
Isaiah 15:4 Or “prepared ones.”
Isaiah 15:5 Zoar means “small” or “reduced.” See Gen. 19:23.
Isaiah 15:5 Eglath-shelishiyah means “a three-year-old heifer.”
Isaiah 15:5 Luhith means “polished” or “made of planks.”
Isaiah 15:5 Horonaim means “double caves” or “two hollows.”
Isaiah 15:6 Nimrim means “clear waters.” Possibly present-day Wadi Numeira.
Isaiah 15:8 Eglaim means “double reservoir.”
Isaiah 15:8 Beer-Elim means the “well of God” or “the well of the mighty ones.”
Isaiah 15:9 Some manuscripts have “Dibon.” Dimon means “consumed.”
Isaiah 15:9 Or “Arabians” (LXX).
Isaiah 15:9 Or “the remnant of Admah” (LXX).