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Chapters 1-16 · Chapter 15

CHAPTER 15

1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab Is laid waste, and brought to silence; Surely in the night Kir of Moab Is laid waste, and brought to silence.

2 He shall go up into the house, and to the high places of Dibon, to weep; Over Nebo, and over Medeba, shall Moab howl. On all his heads shall be baldness, And every beard shall be shaved.

3 In his cross-roads shall they be girded with sackcloth; On his roofs, and in his streets, Shall every one howl, and go down to weep.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh shall cry aloud; As far as Jahaz shall their voice be heard; Therefore shall the armed men of Moab howl; The soul of each man shall howl to itself.

5 My heart shall cry aloud for Moab; Her fugitives to Zoar, a heifer of three years old; By the going up of Luhith shall they go up with weeping, By the way of Horonaim shall they raise the cry of sorrow.

6 The waters of Nimrim are cut off; The grass is withered, The herbage hath failed, No verdure is left.

7 Therefore what every one hath left, and his riches, They shall carry to the brook of the willows.

8 The cry hath gone round the borders of Moab; Even to Eglaim is his howling. And even to Beer-Elim is his howling.

9 Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood; For I will lay additions upon Dimon, Lions to them that are escaped of Moab, And to the remnant of the land.