Isaías 15

¹ The{{See Isa_13:1}}burden of Moab. Because in the nightThe chief city by which the whole country was meant.Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;

² The Moabites will flee to their idols for comfort but it will be too late.He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail overWhich were cites of Moab.Nebo, and over Medeba: on allFor as in the west parts the people used to let their hair grow long when they mourned, so in the East part they cut it off.their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard shorn.

³ In their streetes shall they bee gilded with sackecloth: on the toppes of their houses, and in their streetes euery one shall howle, and come downe with weeping.

⁴ And Heshbon shall crie, and Elealeh: their voyce shall bee heard vnto Iahaz: therefore the warriers of Moab shall showt: the soule of euery one shall lament in him selfe.

⁵ MyThe prophet speaks this in the person of the Moabites: or as one who felt the great judgment of God that God would come on them.heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives [shall flee] to Zoar,Meaning that it was a city that always lived in pleasure and never felt sorrow.an heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping for in the way of Horonaim theyHe describes the miserable dissipation and flight of the Moabites.shall raise a cry of destruction.

⁶ For the waters of Nimrim shal be dried vp: therefore the grasse is withered, the herbes consumed, and there was no greene herbe.

⁷ Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to theTo hide themselves and their goods there.brook of the willows.

⁸ For the crie went round about the borders of Moab: and the howling thereof vnto Eglaim, and the skriking thereof vnto Beer Elim,

⁹ For the waters of Dimon shall be fullOf them who are slain.of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lionsSo that by no means would they escape the hand of God: thus will God punish the enemies of his Church.upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.