rsv Isaiah:15-16
rsv@Isaiah:15:1 @ An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night Moab is undone.
rsv@Isaiah:15:2 @ The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Med'eba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;
rsv@Isaiah:15:3 @ in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.
rsv@Isaiah:15:4 @ Heshbon and Ele-a'leh cry out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.
rsv@Isaiah:15:5 @ My heart cries out for Moab; his fugitives flee to Zo'ar, to Eg'lath-shelish'iyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horona'im they raise a cry of destruction;
rsv@Isaiah:15:6 @ the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the new growth fails, the verdure is no more.
rsv@Isaiah:15:7 @ Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.
rsv@Isaiah:15:8 @ For a cry has gone round the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Egla'im, the wailing reaches to Beer-e'lim.
rsv@Isaiah:15:9 @ For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; yet I will bring upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.
rsv@Isaiah:16:1 @ They have sent lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
rsv@Isaiah:16:2 @ Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
rsv@Isaiah:16:3 @ "Give counsel, grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; hide the outcasts, betray not the fugitive;
rsv@Isaiah:16:4 @ let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples under foot has vanished from the land,
rsv@Isaiah:16:5 @ then a throne will be established in steadfast love and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."
rsv@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab, how proud he was; of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence-- his boasts are false.
rsv@Isaiah:16:7 @ Therefore let Moab wail, let every one wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin-cakes of Kir-har'eseth.
rsv@Isaiah:16:8 @ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
rsv@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Ele-a'leh; for upon your fruit and your harvest the battle shout has fallen.
rsv@Isaiah:16:10 @ And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field; and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no shouts are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; the vintage shout is hushed.
rsv@Isaiah:16:11 @ Therefore my soul moans like a lyre for Moab, and my heart for Kir-he'res.
rsv@Isaiah:16:12 @ And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.
rsv@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word which the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.
rsv@Isaiah:16:14 @ But now the LORD says, "In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble."
rsv@Isaiah:17:1 @ An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.
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