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The American Standard Version of 1901

Isaiah 15

1

The 1 burden of Moab. For 2 in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for 2 in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought. 1) Or oracle concerning 2) Or in the night

2

1 They are gone up to 2 Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth 3 over Nebo, and 3 over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. 1) Or Bayith and Dibon are gone up to the high places 2) Or the temple 3) Or upon

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In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.

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

5

My heart crieth out for Moab; her 1 nobles flee unto Zoar, 2 to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. 1) Or as otherwise read fugitives 2) Or, as a heifer three years old

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For the waters of Nimrim shall be 1 desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing. 1) Heb desolations

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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.

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For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.

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For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.



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