Isaiah Chapter 15

1 Oracle About Moab

            Moab will be ruined

                  because Ar and Kir will be wiped out overnight.

            2 The people of Dibon will go up to their temple

                  and high places to weep.

            Moab will mourn over Nebo and Medeba;

                  everyone’s head will be bald, and their beard shaved off.

            3 They’ll put on burlap

                  in the streets and squares and on the housetops.

                  Everyone will be wailing, melting in tears.

            4 The outcries of Heshbon and Elealeh

                  will echo all the way to Jahaz;

            the armed men of Moab will cry out in panic;

                  their souls will tremble inside them.                               

Is 15:1-4

                  5My heart weeps for Moab;

                  its refugees are fleeing as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah;

                  they’re going up to Luhith sobbing.

            All along the road to Horonaim,

                  they’re crying out in distress over their ruin.

            6 The water at Nimrim has dried up;

                  the tender grass has withered;

                  there’s nothing green anywhere.

            7 The abundance they stored up

                  is being carried away across Wadi Arabim.

            8 Their distress cry has gone all over Moab;

                  their wail as far as Eglaim and Beer-elim.

            9 The stream near Dibon is running red with blood;

                  I’ll bring yet more anguish on Dibon:

                        a lion on the refugees from Moab

                              and the remnant that’s still in the land.               

Is 15:5-9

From the CNT translation by Virgil Warren, PhD