Isaiah 15
1 Sie kas in fahkak ke acn Moab pa inge. Siti lun Ar ac Kir ac kunanula ke fong sefanna, na ac fah arulana misla acn Moab.
[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.
2 Mwet Dibon elos fanyak nu fineol uh in tung in acn in alyalu lalos. Mwet Moab elos wowoyak ac tung tutaf ke sripen asor lalos ke siti Nebo ac Medeba. Elos mangsrasrala ac kalla alut lalos.
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].
3 Mwet inkanek uh elos asor ac nokomang nuknuk yohk eoa. Mwet uh tung ke nien tukeni in siti uh, ac fin lohm uh.
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.
4 Mwet Heshbon a Elealeh elos wowoyak, ac pusren tung lalos ku in lohngyuk yen loessula nwe Jahaz. Finne mwet mweun uh, elos rarrar pac ke elos lohng, ac wanginla pulaik lalos.
[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].
5 Insiuk tungi acn Moab! Mwet we elos kaingla nu in siti Zoar ac nu Eglath Shelishiyah. Kutu mwet uh fanyak ke inkanek nu Luhith, fahsr na tung; ac kutu kaingla nu Horonaim, arulana wowoyak ke asor.
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.
6 Infacl srisrik Nimrim paola, ac mah siska uh uli. Wanginla mah folfol lula we.
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.
7 Mwet uh fahsr sasla Infahlfal Willow, ac srike in kaing wi ma lalos nukewa.
The people will pick up their possessions and carry them across Willows Brook.
8 Ke masrol nukewa lun acn Moab, tung uh lohngyuk we. Lohngyuk pac in siti Eglaim ac Beerelim.
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.
9 Kof ke infacl soko in acn Dibon, srusrala ke srah, na srakna oasr ma upa liki inge ma God El akoo nu sin mwet in acn we. Aok, mwet nukewa su lula in acn Moab ac fah anwuki.
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.
