Context at a Glance
Author:Traditional Attribution
Topic:isaiah Chapter 15 Study
This chapter provides a foundational look at the theological themes of isaiah, analyzed across multiple historic translations for maximum scholarly depth.
Isaiah 15
New Revised Standard Version
1An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.
2Dibon has gone up to the temple, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;
3in the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.
4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins of Moab quiver; his soul trembles.
5My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;
6the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.
7Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Wadi of the Willows.
8For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Eglaim, the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; yet I will bring upon Dibon even more — a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.