Against Moab
15
📚The burden concerning Moab: “Because in the night
Ar of Moab has been laid
waste and brought
to silence,
because in the night Kir of Moab
has been laid waste and
brought to silence,
15:1 For note on Moab see Gen 19:37. For other prophecies about Moab see Jer 48 chapter; Ezek 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zeph 2:8-11. The locations of many of the places in Moab in this chapter are unknown to us.⚜
2 📚He has gone up to Bajith,
and to Dibon,
the high places, to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo,
and over Medeba.
Baldness will be
on all their heads,
and every beard will be
cut off 📖.
3 📚In their streets they will wrap
themselves with sackcloth.
On the tops of their houses,
and in their streets,
everyone will wail,
weeping bitterly.
4 📚And Heshbon and Elealeh
will cry out.
Their voice will be heard
as far as Jahaz;
therefore the armed soldiers
of Moab will cry out.
His life will be burdensome to him.
5 📚“My heart will cry out for Moab.
His fugitives will flee to Zoar
like a heifer three years old;
for by the ascent of Luhith
they will go up with weeping;
for on the road to Horonaim
they will raise a cry of
destruction.
15:5 See Jer 48:31 – God’s grief for Moab.⚜
6 📚For the waters of Nimrim
will be desolate,
for the hay has withered away,
the grass fails;
there is no green thing.
7 📚Therefore the abundance
they have gotten,
and what they have stored away,
they will carry away to the brook
of the willows.
8 📚For the cry is gone all around
the borders of Moab,
its wailing to Eglaim,
and its wailing to Beer Elim.
9 📚For the waters of Dimon
will be full of blood,
for I will bring more on Dimon,
lions 📖 on him who escapes from Moab,
and on the remnant of the land.