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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 15:3 Catholic Bible: The people in the streets are dressed in sackcloth; in the city squares and on the rooftops people mourn and cry. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/15-3.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/15-3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/15-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/15.htm">Chapter 15</a> > Verse 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/15-2.htm" title="Isaiah 15:2">◄</a> Isaiah 15:3 <a href="../isaiah/15-4.htm" title="Isaiah 15:4">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/15.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/15.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The people in the streets are dressed in sackcloth; in the city squares and on the rooftops people mourn and cry. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />in the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />In the towns and at home, everyone wears sackcloth and cries loud and long. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/15.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />In the streets they wear sackcloth, and on the rooftops; In the squares everyone wails, streaming with tears. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.</p><p class="hdg">their streets</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/3-31.htm">2 Samuel 3:31</a> And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_kings/6-30.htm">2 Kings 6:30</a> When the king heard this, he rent his garments, and passed by upon the wall. And all the people saw the haircloth which he wore within next to his flesh.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jonah/3-6.htm">Jonah 3:6-8</a> And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/11-21.htm">Matthew 11:21</a> Woe thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.</p><p class="hdg">on the</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/15-2.htm">Isaiah 15:2</a> The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1</a> The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/22-8.htm">Deuteronomy 22:8</a> When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/19-13.htm">Jeremiah 19:13</a> And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange gods.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/48-38.htm">Jeremiah 48:38,39</a> Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord. . . . </p><p class="hdg">weeping abundantly.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/15-5.htm">Isaiah 15:5</a> My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/15.htm">An Oracle Concerning Moab</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven. <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl">In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.</span><span class="reftext">4</span>Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl to itself.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/5-1.htm">James 5:1</a></span><br />Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_samuel/5-12.htm">1 Samuel 5:12</a></span><br />For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/3-24.htm">Isaiah 3:24</a></span><br />And instead of a sweet smell there shall be stench, and instead of a girdle, a cord, and instead of curled hair, baldness, and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-4.htm">Isaiah 22:4</a></span><br />Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/48-37.htm">Jeremiah 48:37</a></span><br />For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/48-38.htm">Jeremiah 48:38</a></span><br />Upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof general mourning: because I have broken Moab as an useless vessel, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../lamentations/2-10.htm">Lamentations 2:10</a></span><br />Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/7-18.htm">Ezekiel 7:18</a></span><br />And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/8-10.htm">Amos 8:10</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jonah/3-6.htm">Jonah 3:6</a></span><br />And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.<span class="p"><br 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