Isaiah 15:2

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Summary

He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Is gone

Isaiah 16:12

Joshua 13:17

Jeremiah 48:18

Moab

All

General references

Leviticus 19:27

Joshua 13:16

Bible References

Is gone

So it will come about when Moab presents himself,
When he wearies himself upon his high place
And comes to his sanctuary to pray,
That he will not prevail.

Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

“Come down from your glory
And sit on the parched ground,
O daughter dwelling in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.

Moab

In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;

On their housetops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing,

dissolved in tears.

“Wail, O gate; cry, O city;

Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;

For smoke comes from the north,
And there is no straggler in his ranks.

Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.
You will moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth
As those who are utterly stricken.

“Therefore I will wail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;

I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

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Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;
Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

‘Cut off your hair and cast it away,
And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;
For the Lord has rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

“Baldness has come upon Gaza;

Ashkelon has been ruined.

O remnant of their valley,
How long will you gash yourself?

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed;

Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;

The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.

They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

General references

You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;