Isaiah 15:1-Isaiah 16:14 - Oracle Of Judgment On Moab

¹ The burden of Moab. Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off; because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off. ² One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness shall be on all their heads, every beard cut off. ³ In the streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl, melting in tears. ⁴ And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz. So the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life is broken to him. ⁵ My heart shall cry to Moab; his fugitives flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years. He goes up the ascent to Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of ruin. ⁶ For the waters of Nimrim are desolation; for the hay has dried up and the grass fails, there is no green thing. ⁷ Therefore one made up the remainder and their store; over the torrent of the willows they shall carry them. ⁸ For the cry has gone around the border of Moab, its howling even to Eglaim; yea, its howling even to Beer-elim. ⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will put on Dimon more things for the escaped ones of Moab, a lion, even for the remnant of the land.

¹ Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from the rock of the desert to the mount of the daughter of Zion. ² For it shall be as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

³ Take counsel, do judgment; make your shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; do not betray the fugitive. ⁴ Let my outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be a shelter to them from the face of the destroyer; for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. ⁵ And in mercy the throne shall be established; and he shall sit on it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment, and speeding righteousness.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; very proud; even of his vanity, and his pride, and his rage; not so are his babblings. ⁷ So Moab shall howl for Moab, everyone shall howl. All of it shall howl for the foundations of Kir-hareseth; surely they are stricken. ⁸ For Heshbon's fields droop, the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have crushed its choice plants, they have come to Jazer, they wander in the desert; her branches are stretched out, they have crossed the sea. ⁹ On account of this I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for the shouting has fallen on your fruit and on your harvest. ¹⁰ And gladness and joy are gathered out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing and no shouting. The treader shall tread out no wine in the presses; I have made their shouting to cease. ¹¹ Therefore my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my bowels for Kir-hareseth. ¹² And it shall be when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, he shall come to his sacred place to pray; but he shall not be able.

¹³ This is the Word that Jehovah has spoken to Moab since that time. ¹⁴ But now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be abased with all that great host and the remnant few; small, not mighty.