Isaiah 15

1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about the Moab [people-group]: In one night [two of your important cities], Ar and Kir, will be destroyed.

[the] oracle of Moab that in a night [which] it was devastated Ar of Moab it was destroyed that in a night [which] it was devastated Kir of Moab it was destroyed.

2 The people of Dibon, [your capital city, ] will go to their temple to mourn/weep; they will go to [their shrines] on the hilltops to weep. They will wail because of [what happened to] Nebo and Medeba [towns in the south]; they will all shave the hair of their heads, and the men will cut off their beards [to show that they are grieving].

It has gone up the house and Dibon the high places for weeping on Nebo and on Medeba Moab it is wailing [is] on all heads its baldness every beard [is] diminished.

3 In the streets people will wear rough sackcloth, and on their [flat] rooftops and in the [city] plazas everyone will wail, with tears streaming down their faces.

In streets its they have girded on sackcloth on roofs its and in open places its all of it it is wailing going down in weeping.

4 [The people of] Heshbon [city] and Elealeh [towns in the north of Moab] will cry out; people as far away as Jahaz [town in the south] will hear them wailing. Therefore the soldiers of Moab will tremble and cry out and they will be very afraid [IDM].

And it has cried out Heshbon and Elealeh to Jahaz it has been heard voice their there-fore [the] armed [men] of Moab they are shouting being its it is trembling to it.

5 I feel very sorry for [the people of] Moab; they will flee to Zoar and Eglath-Shelishiyah [towns in the far south]. They will cry as they walk up to Luhith [town]. All along the road to Horonaim [town] people will mourn because their country has been destroyed.

Heart my for Moab it cries out fugitives its [are] to Zoar Eglath Shelishiyah for - [the] ascent of Luhith with weeping it is going up on it that [the] road of Horonaim a cry of shattering they rouse.

6 The water in Nimrim [Valley] will have dried up. The grass there will be withered; the green plants will [all] be gone, and there will be nothing left that is green.

That [the] waters of Nimrim wastes they are for it has dried up grass it has wasted away vegetation greenery not it is.

7 The people will pick up their possessions and carry them across Willows Brook.

There-fore [the] wealth [which] it has made and store their over [the] wadi of the poplars they carry off them.

8 Throughout the country of Moab, [people] will be crying; people as far away as Eglaim [in the south] and Beer-Elim [in the north] will hear them wailing.

For it has gone around the cry [the] territory of Moab to Eglaim wailing its and Beer Elim wailing its.

9 The stream near Dimon will become red from the blood [of people who have been killed], but I will cause the people of Moab to experience even more [trouble]: Lions will attack those who [are trying to] escape from Moab and will [also] attack the people who remain in that country.

That [the] waters of Dimon they are full blood that I will put on Dimon added [things] [will be] for [the] escaped remnant of Moab a lion and for [the] remainder of [the] land.