Isaiah 15-16
New American Standard Bible 1995
Judgment on Moab
15 The [a]oracle concerning (A)Moab.
Surely in a night (B)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
2 They have gone up to the [b]temple and to (C)Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is (D)bald and every beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they have girded themselves with (E)sackcloth;
(F)On their housetops and in their squares
Everyone is wailing, [c](G)dissolved in tears.
4 (H)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the [d]armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as (I)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the (J)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress (K)over their ruin.
6 For the (L)waters of Nimrim are [e]desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass [f]died out,
There is (M)no green thing.
7 Therefore the (N)abundance which they have acquired and stored up
They carry off over the brook of [g]Arabim.
8 For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of Dimon are full of [h]blood;
Surely I will bring added woes upon Dimon,
A (O)lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
Prophecy of Moab’s Devastation
16 (P)Send the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,
From [i](Q)Sela by way of the wilderness to the (R)mountain of the daughter of Zion.
2 Then, like [j](S)fleeing birds or scattered [k]nestlings,
The daughters of (T)Moab will be at the fords of the (U)Arnon.
3 “[l]Give us advice, make a decision;
[m]Cast your (V)shadow like night [n]at high noon;
(W)Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive.
4 “Let the [o]outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(X)Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.
5 A (Y)throne will even be established in lovingkindness,
And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of (Z)David;
Moreover, he will seek justice
And be prompt in righteousness.
6 (AA)We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;
Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury;
(AB)His idle boasts are [p]false.
7 Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.
You will moan for the (AC)raisin cakes of (AD)Kir-hareseth
As those who are utterly stricken.
8 For the fields of (AE)Heshbon have [q]withered, the vines of (AF)Sibmah as well;
The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters
Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;
(AG)Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.
9 Therefore I will (AH)weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;
I will drench you with my tears, O (AI)Heshbon and Elealeh;
For the shouting over your (AJ)summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.
10 (AK)Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;
In the (AL)vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting,
No (AM)treader treads out wine in the presses,
For I have made the shouting to cease.
11 Therefore my [r](AN)heart intones like a harp for Moab
And my [s]inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.
12 So it will come about when Moab (AO)presents himself,
When he (AP)wearies himself upon his (AQ)high place
And comes to his sanctuary to pray,
That he will not prevail.
13 This is the word which the Lord spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14 But now the Lord speaks, saying, “Within three years, as [t](AR)a hired man would count them, the glory of (AS)Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and [u]impotent.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 15:1 Or burden of
- Isaiah 15:2 Lit house
- Isaiah 15:3 Lit going down in weeping
- Isaiah 15:4 Another reading is the loins of
- Isaiah 15:6 Lit desolations
- Isaiah 15:6 Lit come to an end
- Isaiah 15:7 Or the poplars
- Isaiah 15:9 Heb dam (a wordplay)
- Isaiah 16:1 I.e. Petra in Edom
- Isaiah 16:2 Or fluttering
- Isaiah 16:2 Lit nest
- Isaiah 16:3 Lit Bring
- Isaiah 16:3 Lit Set
- Isaiah 16:3 Lit in the midst of the noon
- Isaiah 16:4 So the versions; M.T. My outcasts, as for Moab
- Isaiah 16:6 Lit not so
- Isaiah 16:8 Or languished
- Isaiah 16:11 Lit entrails murmur
- Isaiah 16:11 Lit inward part
- Isaiah 16:14 Lit the years of a hireling
- Isaiah 16:14 Lit not mighty
Isaiah 25:10-12
New American Standard Bible 1995
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
And (A)Moab will be trodden down in his place
As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.
11 And he will (B)spread out his hands in the middle of it
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will (C)lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.
12 The (D)unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low and cast to the ground, even to the dust.
Jeremiah 48
New American Standard Bible 1995
Prophecy against Moab
48 Concerning (A)Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Woe to (B)Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
(C)Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and [a]shattered.
2 “There is praise for Moab no longer;
In (D)Heshbon they have devised calamity against her:
‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You too, [b]Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow after you.
3 “The sound of an outcry from (E)Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
4 “Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
5 “For by the ascent of (F)Luhith
They will ascend with continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the [c]anguished cry of destruction.
6 “(G)Flee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
7 “For because of your (H)trust in your own achievements and treasures,
Even you yourself will be captured;
And (I)Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
8 “A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the (J)plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.
9 “Give [d](K)wings to Moab,
For she will [e]flee away;
And her cities will become a (L)desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
10 “(M)Cursed be the one who does the Lord’s work (N)negligently,
And cursed be the one who restrains his (O)sword from blood.
11 “Moab has been (P)at ease since his youth;
He has also been (Q)undisturbed, like wine on [f]its dregs,
And he has not been (R)emptied from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore [g]he retains his flavor,
And his aroma has not changed.
12 Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter [h]his jars. 13 And Moab will be (S)ashamed of (T)Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of (U)Bethel, their confidence.
14 “How can you say, ‘We are (V)mighty warriors,
And men valiant for battle’?
15 “Moab has been destroyed and [i]men have gone up to [j]his cities;
His choicest [k](W)young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the (X)King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
16 “The disaster of Moab will (Y)soon come,
And his calamity has swiftly hastened.
17 “Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the mighty [l](Z)scepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
18 “(AA)Come down from your glory
And sit [m]on the parched ground,
O (AB)daughter dwelling in (AC)Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
19 “Stand by the road and keep watch,
O inhabitant of (AD)Aroer;
(AE)Ask him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’
20 “Moab has been put to shame, for it has been [n]shattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the (AF)Arnon
That Moab has been destroyed.
21 “Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, (AG)Jahzah and against (AH)Mephaath, 22 against Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim, 23 against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul and (AI)Beth-meon, 24 against (AJ)Kerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. 25 The (AK)horn of Moab has been cut off and his (AL)arm broken,” declares the Lord. 26 “(AM)Make him drunk, for he has [o]become (AN)arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will [p]wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. 27 Now was not Israel a (AO)laughingstock to you? Or was he [q](AP)caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you (AQ)shake your head in scorn.
28 “Leave the cities and dwell among the (AR)crags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a (AS)dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
29 “(AT)We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his (AU)pride, his arrogance and [r]his self-exaltation.
30 “I know his (AV)fury,” declares the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.
31 “Therefore I will (AW)wail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;
[s]I will moan for the men of (AX)Kir-heres.
32 “More than the (AY)weeping for (AZ)Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.
33 “So (BA)gladness and joy are taken away
From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.
And I have made the wine to (BB)cease from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.
34 (BC)From the outcry at Heshbon even to (BD)Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have [t]raised their voice, from (BE)Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. 35 I will make an end of Moab,” declares the Lord, “the one who offers sacrifice on the (BF)high place and the one who [u](BG)burns incense to his gods.
36 “Therefore My (BH)heart [v]wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also [w]wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have (BI)lost the abundance it produced. 37 For (BJ)every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and (BK)sackcloth on the loins. 38 On all the (BL)housetops of Moab and in its streets [x]there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable (BM)vessel,” declares the Lord. 39 “How [y]shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an (BN)object of terror to all around him.”
40 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, one will (BO)fly swiftly like an eagle
And (BP)spread out his wings against Moab.
41 “Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the (BQ)hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day
Will be like the heart of a (BR)woman in labor.
42 “Moab will be (BS)destroyed from being a people
Because he has [z]become (BT)arrogant toward the Lord.
43 “(BU)Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you,
O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.
44 “The one who (BV)flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their (BW)punishment,” declares the Lord.
45 “In the shadow of Heshbon
The fugitives stand without strength;
For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon
And a (BX)flame from the midst of (BY)Sihon,
And it has devoured the (BZ)forehead of Moab
And the scalps of the [aa]riotous revelers.
46 “(CA)Woe to you, Moab!
The people of (CB)Chemosh have perished;
For your sons have been taken away captive
And your daughters into captivity.
47 “Yet I will (CC)restore the [ab]fortunes of Moab
In the [ac]latter days,” declares the Lord.
Thus far the judgment on Moab.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 48:1 Or dismayed
- Jeremiah 48:2 I.e. a city of Moab
- Jeremiah 48:5 Lit distresses of outcry
- Jeremiah 48:9 Or salt
- Jeremiah 48:9 Or fall in ruins
- Jeremiah 48:11 Lit his
- Jeremiah 48:11 Lit his flavor has stayed in him
- Jeremiah 48:12 Lit their
- Jeremiah 48:15 Lit one has
- Jeremiah 48:15 Lit her
- Jeremiah 48:15 I.e. warriors
- Jeremiah 48:17 Or rod
- Jeremiah 48:18 Lit in thirst
- Jeremiah 48:20 Or dismayed
- Jeremiah 48:26 Or magnified himself against
- Jeremiah 48:26 Or splash into
- Jeremiah 48:27 Or found
- Jeremiah 48:29 Lit elevation of his heart
- Jeremiah 48:31 Another reading is He
- Jeremiah 48:34 Lit given forth
- Jeremiah 48:35 Or offers up in smoke
- Jeremiah 48:36 Lit sounds
- Jeremiah 48:36 Lit sounds
- Jeremiah 48:38 Lit all of it is lamentation
- Jeremiah 48:39 Or dismayed
- Jeremiah 48:42 Or magnified himself against
- Jeremiah 48:45 Lit sons of tumult
- Jeremiah 48:47 Or captivity
- Jeremiah 48:47 Lit end of the days
Ezekiel 25:8-11
New American Standard Bible 1995
Moab
8 ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because (A)Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’ 9 therefore, behold, I am going to [a]deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its [b]frontiers, the glory of the land, (B)Beth-jeshimoth, (C)Baal-meon and (D)Kiriathaim, 10 and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the (E)sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations. 11 Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
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- Ezekiel 25:9 Lit open
- Ezekiel 25:9 Lit end
Zephaniah 2:8-9
New American Standard Bible 1995
8 “I have heard the [a](A)taunting of Moab
And the (B)revilings of the sons of Ammon,
With which they have [b]taunted My people
And [c](C)become arrogant against their territory.
9 “Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
“Surely (D)Moab will be like (E)Sodom
And the sons of (F)Ammon like (G)Gomorrah—
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will (H)plunder them
And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:8 Lit reproach
- Zephaniah 2:8 Lit reproached
- Zephaniah 2:8 Lit made themselves great
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