Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

XV. 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, is destroyed; for in a night Kit- of Moab is laid waste, is destroyed:

[*](29. ‘viper’: rendered by many ‘basilisk.’ Cf. xi. 8.)[*](1. Or, ‘surely in a night’)

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2 He is gone up to the house, and Dibon, the high places, to weep; Moab howleth upon Nebo, and upon Medeba; on all his heads (is) baldness, every beard cut off.

3 In his streets they are girded with sackcloth; on her roofs and in her broad places all of her howleth, running down with weeping.

4 And Heshbon crieth, and Elealeh; their voiCe is heard unto Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry out; his soul trembleth within him.

5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her bars reach unto Zoar; a heifer of three years old: for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping doth he go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.

6 For the waters of Nimrim are desolations; the grass is withered, the herbage is consumed, there is no green thing.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and their treasure, shall they carry away over the brook of willows.

8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of ’ Moab; her howling (hath reached) unto Eglaim, and to Beer-elim her howling.

9 For ’waters of Dimon are full of blood; forI will bring more upon Dimon, a lion for the escaped of Moab, and for the remnant of the land.

XVI. 1. Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela toward the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

[*](2. ‘house,’ i.e. temple.)[*](4. ‘armed’ (loin-girt). ‘trembleth,’ or, ‘is grieved.)[*](5. ‘bars,’ i.e. protections: vectes, Vulg. ‘fugitives,’ A.V. and several modems, against vowelopoints: R.V. interprets ‘bars’ to mean ‘nobles.’ Cf. xliii. 14, where A.V. and R.V. reverse their renderings.)[*](7. Or, ‘unto the brook...)[*](9. ‘land’: or, ‘ground’ (Heb. Adamah: treated as proper name by Lxx.).)[*](1. Or ‘lambs’ (collective) ‘of the ruler...)

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2 And it shall be, like wandering birds, a scattered nest, shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.