Isaiah 15  New English Translation

15 This is an oracle^[a] about Moab:
Indeed, in a night it is devastated,
Ar of Moab is destroyed!
Indeed, in a night it is devastated,
Kir of Moab is destroyed!
² They went up to the temple;^[b]
the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament.^[c]
Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba,^[d] Moab wails.
Every head is shaved bare,
every beard is trimmed off.^[e]
3 In their streets they wear sackcloth;
on their roofs and in their town squares
all of them wail;
they fall down weeping.
⁴ The people of^[f] Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz.
For this reason Moab’s soldiers shout in distress;
their courage wavers.^[g]
5 My heart cries out because of Moab’s plight,^[h]
and for the fugitives^[i] stretched out^[j] as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah.
For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith;
they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.^[k]
6 For the waters of Nimrim are gone;^[l]
the grass is dried up,
the vegetation has disappeared,
and there are no plants.
⁷ For this reason what they have made and stored up,
they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
⁸ Indeed, the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory;
their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim.^[m]
9 Indeed, the waters of Dimon^[n] are full of blood!
Indeed, I will heap even more trouble on Dimon.^[o]
A lion will attack^[p] the Moabite fugitives
and the people left in the land.