Isaiah 15

¹ LOAD OF MOAB Seeing that, in a night, devastated is the city, Moab is stilled! Seeing that, in a night, devastated is the side wall, Moab is stilled! ² It ascends the Bith and Dibon, the fane heights, for lamentation. On Nebo and on Medeba is Moab howling. On all their heads is baldness, and every beard is hacked. ³ In its streets they gird on sackcloth. On top of its houses and in its squares everyone is howling, and tears are descending with lamentation. ⁴ And crying out is Heshbon and Elealeh, unto Jahaz their voice is heard. Therefore those liberated for war in Moab are shouting. Its soul is feeling evil to him. ⁵ The heart of Moab is crying out in it. Its fugitives are unto Zoar, as a heifer of the third year, for the ascent of Luhith. It is ascending into it with lamentation, for the way is a hot outcry with breaking and quaking. ⁶ For the changeable waters are becoming desolations, for dry is the grass. Vanished is the verdure. Nothing becomes green. ⁷ Therefore the rest is saved, and their noted things; they will bear them over the watercourse of the oleanders. ⁸ For the outcry encompasses the boundary of Moab. Her howling is unto Eglaim, and unto the well of Elim is her howling. ⁹ For the waters of Dibon are full of blood, for I will set on Dibon still more: A lion lurks for the delivered of Moab, and for the remnant of the ground.