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href="../isaiah/14.htm" title="Isaiah 14">◄</a> Isaiah 15 <a href="../isaiah/16.htm" title="Isaiah 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/isaiah/15.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">A Prophecy Against Moab</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A prophecy against Moab:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">Ar in Moab is ruined,</p><p class="line2">destroyed in a night!</p><p class="line1">Kir in Moab is ruined,</p><p class="line2">destroyed in a night!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Dibon goes up to its temple,</p><p class="line2">to its high places to weep;</p><p class="line2">Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.</p><p class="line1">Every head is shaved</p><p class="line2">and every beard cut off.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In the streets they wear sackcloth;</p><p class="line2">on the roofs and in the public squares</p><p class="line1">they all wail,</p><p class="line2">prostrate with weeping.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,</p><p class="line2">their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.</p><p class="line1">Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,</p><p class="line2">and their hearts are faint.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My heart cries out over Moab;</p><p class="line2">her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,</p><p class="line2">as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.</p><p class="line1">They go up the hill to Luhith,</p><p class="line2">weeping as they go;</p><p class="line1">on the road to Horonaim</p><p class="line2">they lament their destruction.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The waters of Nimrim are dried up</p><p class="line2">and the grass is withered;</p><p class="line1">the vegetation is gone</p><p class="line2">and nothing green is left.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So the wealth they have acquired and stored up</p><p class="line2">they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;</p><p class="line2">their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,</p><p class="line2">their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The waters of Dimon <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.">a</a></sup></span> are full of blood,</p><p class="line2">but I will bring still more upon Dimon <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood.">b</a></sup></span> —</p><p class="line1">a lion upon the fugitives of Moab</p><p class="line2">and upon those who remain in the land.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Dimon</i>, a wordplay on <i>Dibon</i> (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for <i>blood</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Dimon</i>, a wordplay on <i>Dibon</i> (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for <i>blood</i>.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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