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class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,</span><br /><span class="indent">Moab is undone;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,</span><br /><span class="indent">Moab is undone.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has gone up to the temple,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the house">a</a></sup></span> and to Dibon,</span><br /><span class="indent">to the high places<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or temple, even Dibon to the high places">b</a></sup></span> to weep;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">over Nebo and over Medeba</span><br /><span class="indent">Moab wails.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">On every head is baldness;</span><br /><span class="indent">every beard is shorn;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">in the streets they wear sackcloth;</span><br /><span class="indent">on the housetops and in the squares</span><br /><span class="indent">everyone wails and melts in tears.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;</span><br /><span class="indent">their voice is heard as far as Jahaz;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;</span><br /><span class="indent">his soul trembles.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My heart cries out for Moab;</span><br /><span class="indent">her fugitives flee to Zoar,</span><br /><span class="indent">to Eglath-shelishiyah.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For at the ascent of Luhith</span><br /><span class="indent">they go up weeping;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">on the road to Horonaim</span><br /><span class="indent">they raise a cry of destruction;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">the waters of Nimrim</span><br /><span class="indent">are a desolation;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,</span><br /><span class="indent">the greenery is no more.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore the abundance they have gained</span><br /><span class="indent">and what they have laid up</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they carry away</span><br /><span class="indent">over the Brook of the Willows.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For a cry has gone</span><br /><span class="indent">around the land of Moab;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">her wailing reaches to Eglaim;</span><br /><span class="indent">her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the waters of Dibon<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon; twice in this verse">c</a></sup></span> are full of blood;</span><br /><span class="indent">for I will bring upon Dibon even more,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">a lion for those of Moab who escape,</span><br /><span class="indent">for the remnant of the land.</span><br /><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> house</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>temple, even Dibon to the high places</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text <i>Dimon</i>; twice in this verse<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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