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Isaiah

Lament for Moab

Isaiah 15:1-16:14
1An oracle concerning Moab: because Ar of Moab was ruined in the night and ceased, because Kir of Moab was ruined in the night and ceased. 2He has ascended to Bajith and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; upon Nebo and upon Medeba Moab wails; on every head is baldness and every beard is diminished. 3In his streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; upon her roofs and in her streets everyone wails, going down with weeping. 4Heshbon and Elealeh cried out; their voice was heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab shout and his soul is ill within him. 5My heart cries out for Moab; her bars reach as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah the third; for with weeping he ascends by the ascent of Luhith in it, for they rouse an outcry of breaking on the way of Horonaim. 6For the waters of Nimrim shall become devastations, because the leek has withered, the grass has finished, and green is not present. 7Therefore he has made abundance, and their punishment they lift upon the torrent of the willows. 8For the outcry has surrounded the border of Moab as far as Eglaim; her wailing reaches Beer-elim as well. 9For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood, because I will set additions upon Dibon for the survivor of Moab, a lion, and for the remnant of the land.
Chapter 16
1Send a ram, the ruler of the land, from Sela in the wilderness to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. 2And it shall be like a wandering bird, a nest sent away; the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. 3Bring counsel and make judgment; set your shadow like the night in the midst of midday; hide the banished wanderer; do not uncover him. 4Let my banished ones sojourn in you, Moab; be a hiding place for them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner has ended, violence has finished, and the trampler has finished from the land. 5A throne shall be established in kindness, and he shall dwell upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness. 6We have heard the pride of Moab, very proud; his pride, his pride, and his fury are not right; it is his bluster. 7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab; all of him shall wail; they mutter to the foundations of Kir-hareseth; surely they are stricken. 8For the fields of Heshbon are weakened, the vine of Sebam; the masters of nations have struck her tendrils as far as Jazer; they touched them, they wandered in the wilderness; her shoots were left and passed over the sea. 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer over the vine of Sebam; I will quench your tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for a shout has fallen upon your summer and upon your harvest. 10Joy and rejoicing shall be gathered from the plantation, and in the vineyards they shall not sing nor shout; wine in the winepresses the treader shall not tread; the shout has been made to cease. 11Therefore my inward parts roar for Moab like a lyre, and my heart for Kir-hareseth. 12And it shall be that when Moab is seen to be weary upon the high place, he comes to his sanctuary to pray, yet he is not able. 13This is the word that the LORD spoke to Moab long ago. 14And now the LORD has spoken, saying: Within three years, like the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be dishonored with all its great multitude, and the remnant will be very small, not mighty.
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