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Isaiah 15

1 A message a concerning Moab: “For Ir b in Moab is destroyed in a night, and Moab c is ruined! Because Ir d in Moab is destroyed in a single night, Moab is ruined!

2 He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely e bald, and f every beard is shaved off.

3 In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down g weeping.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins h of Moab cry aloud; its heart quakes for itself.

5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent to Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

6 The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is i no foliage left.

7 Therefore the wealth they have acquired and what they have stored up— they carry them away over the Arab j Wadi. k

8 For the cry has gone out along the border of Moab; her wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, her wailing reaches as far as Beer-elim.

9 The Dibon l streams are full of blood; but I will bring upon Dibon m even more— a lion will pounce n upon those of Moab who escape, upon o those who remain in the land.”