{"book":"Isaiah","slug":"isaiah","ch":15,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Isaiah","prev":"isaiah/14","next":"isaiah/16","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[This is] the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"[This is] the burden against Moab:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Ar in Moab is ruined,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"destroyed in a night!"},{"style":"indent1","t":"Kir in Moab is devastated,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"destroyed in a night!"}],"h":"The Burden against Moab","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Dibon goes up to its temple"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to weep at its high places."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Moab wails over Nebo,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"as well as over Medeba."},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Every head is shaved,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"every beard is cut off."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"In its streets they wear sackcloth;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"on the rooftops and in the public squares"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they all wail, falling down weeping."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"their voices are heard as far as Jahaz."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"their souls tremble within."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.","f":["Or Zoar, like a heifer three years of age."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"My heart cries out over Moab;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"as far as Eglath-shelishiyah."},{"style":"indent1","t":"With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":6,"t":"The waters of Nimrim are dried up, [and] the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, [and] the greenery is no more.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The waters of Nimrim are dried up,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] the grass is withered;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"the vegetation is gone,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] the greenery is no more."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.","f":["Or Poplars"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"So they carry their wealth and belongings"},{"style":"indent2","t":"over the Brook of the Willows."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; [it is heard] in Beer-elim.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Their wailing reaches Eglaim;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[it is heard] in Beer-elim."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":9,"t":"The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon — a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.","f":["MT, twice in this verse; DSS and Vulgate Dibon; Dimon, a wordplay on Dibon (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for blood."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The waters of Dimon are full of blood,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but I will bring more upon Dimon —"},{"style":"indent1","t":"a lion upon the fugitives of Moab"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and upon the remnant of the land."}],"style":"indent1"}]}