Isaiah, chapter 15
Moab Will Be Punished
his is a message about Moab:
The towns of Ar and Kir were destroyed in a night.
Moab is left in ruins!
2Everyone in Dibon has gone up
to the temple and the shrines to cry and weep.
All of Moab is crying.
Heads and beards are shaved
because of what happened at Nebo and Medeba.
3In the towns and at home, everyone wears sackcloth
and cries loud and long.
4From Heshbon and Elealeh, weeping is heard in Jahaz;
Moab's warriors scream while trembling with fear.
Pity Moab
5I pity Moab! Its people are running to Zoar
and to Eglath-Shelishiyah.
They cry on their way up to the town of Luhith;
on the road to Horonaim they tell of disasters.
6The streams of Nimrim and the grasslands have dried up.
Every plant is parched.
7The people of Moab are leaving,
crossing over Willow Creek,
taking everything they own and have worked for.
8In the towns of Eglaim and of Beerelim
and everywhere else in Moab
mournful cries are heard.
9The streams near Dimon are flowing with blood.
But the Lord will bring even worse trouble to Dimon,
because all in Moab who escape
will be attacked by lions.