Isaiah 15

✎Economics

A Prophecy Against Moab

A prophecy against Moab:

                  Ar in Moab is ruined,

         destroyed in a night!

                  Kir in Moab is ruined,

         destroyed in a night!

     2             Dibon goes up to its temple,

         to its high places to weep;

         Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.

                  Every head is shaved

         and every beard cut off.

     3             In the streets they wear sackcloth;

         on the roofs and in the public squares

                  they all wail,

         prostrate with weeping.

     4             Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,

         their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.

                  Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,

         and their hearts are faint.

     5             My heart cries out over Moab;

         her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,

         as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.

                  They go up the hill to Luhith,

         weeping as they go;

                  on the road to Horonaim

         they lament their destruction.

     6             The waters of Nimrim are dried up

         and the grass is withered;

                  the vegetation is gone

         and nothing green is left.

     7             So the wealth they have acquired and stored up

         they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

     8             Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;

         their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,

         their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

     9             The waters of Dimon are full of blood,

         but I will bring still more upon Dimon — ​

                  a lion upon the fugitives of Moab

         and upon those who remain in the land.