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And the Lord sent against him bands of the (A)Chaldeans and (B)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, (C)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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An Oracle Concerning Moab

15 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Moab.

Because (C)Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
    Moab is undone;
because (D)Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
    Moab is undone.
He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (E)Dibon,
    to the high places[b] to weep;
over (F)Nebo and over (G)Medeba
    Moab (H)wails.
On every head is (I)baldness;
    every beard is shorn;
in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.
(J)Heshbon and (K)Elealeh cry out;
    their voice is heard as far as (L)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
    his soul trembles.
My heart cries out for Moab;
    her fugitives flee to Zoar,
    to (M)Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the (N)ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;
on the road to (O)Horonaim
    they raise a cry of destruction;
the waters of (P)Nimrim
    are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
    the greenery is no more.
(Q)Therefore the abundance they have gained
    and what they have laid up
they carry away
    over the Brook of the Willows.
For a cry has gone
    around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
    her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
For the waters of (R)Dibon[c] are full of blood;
    for I will bring upon Dibon even more,
(S)a lion for those of Moab who escape,
    for the remnant of the land.
16 (T)Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
from (U)Sela, by way of the desert,
    to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Like fleeing birds,
    like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
    at (V)the fords of the Arnon.
“Give counsel;
    grant justice;
(W)make your shade like night
    at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
    do not reveal the fugitive;
let (X)the outcasts of Moab
    sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them[d]
    from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
    and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,
(Y)then a throne will be established in steadfast love,
    and on it will sit in faithfulness
    in the tent of David
one who judges and seeks justice
    and is swift to do righteousness.”
(Z)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    how proud he is!—
(AA)of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
    in his idle boasting he is not right.
Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,
    (AB)let everyone wail.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
    for the (AC)raisin cakes of (AD)Kir-hareseth.
For the fields of Heshbon languish,
    and (AE)the vine of Sibmah;
the lords of the nations
    have struck down its branches,
which reached to Jazer
    and strayed to the desert;
its shoots spread abroad
    and passed over the sea.
Therefore (AF)I weep with (AG)the weeping of Jazer
    for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
    O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over (AH)your summer fruit and your harvest
    the shout has ceased.
10 (AI)And joy and gladness are taken away from (AJ)the fruitful field,
and in the vineyards no (AK)songs are sung,
    no cheers are raised;
no (AL)treader treads out wine (AM)in the presses;
    I have put an end to the shouting.
11 Therefore (AN)my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
    and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

12 And when Moab presents himself, when (AO)he wearies himself on (AP)the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

13 This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab (AQ)in the past. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, “In three years, (AR)like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be (AS)very few and feeble.”

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
  2. Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
  3. Isaiah 15:9 Dead Sea Scroll, Vulgate (compare Syriac); Masoretic Text Dimon (twice in this verse)
  4. Isaiah 16:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac; Masoretic Text let my outcasts sojourn among you; as for Moab, be a shelter to them

Prophecy Against Moab and Seir

“Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)Moab and (B)Seir[a] said, ‘Behold, the (C)house of Judah is like all the other nations’, therefore (D)I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, (E)Beth-jeshimoth, (F)Baal-meon, and (G)Kiriathaim. 10 I will give it (H)along with the Ammonites (I)to the people of the East as a possession, (J)that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, 11 (K)and I will execute judgements upon Moab. (L)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 25:8 Septuagint lacks and Seir

Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Moab,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because (C)he burned to lime
    the bones of the king of Edom.
So I will send a fire upon Moab,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of (D)Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
    amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;
(E)I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
    and will kill (F)all its princes[b] with him,”
says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:1 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 4, 6
  2. Amos 2:3 Or officials

“I have heard (A)the taunts of Moab
    and (B)the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
    and made boasts (C)against their territory.
Therefore, (D)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (E)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (F)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste for ever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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