Isaiah 15:1-9; 16:1-5
15:1 A prophecy against Moab:
Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!
Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep;
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the roofs and in the public square they all wail, prostrate with weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out over Moab;
her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon—
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.
16:1 Send lambs as tribute to the ruler of the land, from Sela, across the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.
2 Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
3 “Make up your mind,” Moab says. “Render a decision. Make your shadow like night— at high noon.
Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees. 4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.”
The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease; the aggressor will vanish from the land.
5 In love a throne will be established;
in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
one from the house of David—
one who in judging seeks justice
and speeds the cause of righteousness.
New International Version (NIV)
