Isaiah 15:1-16:14, Jeremiah 48:1-47 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 15:1-16:14

An Oracle Concerning Moab

The ¹oracle concerning ^aMoab.

Surely in a night ^bAr of Moab is destroyed and ruined;

Surely in a night Kir of Moab is destroyed and ruined.

They have gone up to the ¹temple and to ^aDibon, even to the high places to weep.

Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;

Everyone’s head is ^bbald and every beard is cut off.

In their streets they have girded themselves with ^asackcloth;

^bOn their rooftops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, ¹^cdissolved in weeping.

^aHeshbon and Elealeh also cry out,

Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;

Therefore ¹the armed men of Moab make a loud shout;

His soul trembles within him.

My heart cries out for Moab;

Those who flee from her are as far as ^aZoar and Eglath‑shelishiyah,

For they go up the ^bascent of Luhith weeping;

Surely on the road to Horonaim they keep awake with crying in distress ^cover their destruction.

For the ^awaters of Nimrim are ¹desolate.

Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has ²completely ceased,

There is ^bno green thing.

Therefore the ^aabundance they have made and stored up

They carry off over the brook of ¹Arabim.

For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab,

Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer‑elim.

For the waters of Dimon are full of ¹blood;

Surely I will put added woes upon Dimon,

A ^alion upon those of Moab who have escaped and upon the remnant of the land.

^aSend the tribute lamb to the ruler of the land,

From ¹^bSela by way of the wilderness to the ^cmountain of the daughter of Zion.

Then, like ¹^afleeing birds or scattered ²nestlings,

The daughters of ^bMoab will be at the fords of the ^cArnon.

“Bring us counsel, make a decision;

¹Cast your ^ashadow like night ²at high noon;

^bHide those banished, do not reveal the one who flees.

Let the ¹banished of Moab sojourn with you;

Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”

For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,

^aOppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

And a ^athrone will be established in lovingkindness,

And a judge will sit on it in truth in the tent of ^bDavid;

Moreover, he will seek justice

And be prompt in righteousness.

^aWe have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;

Even of his lofty pride, pride, and fury;

^bHis idle boasts are ¹false.

Therefore Moab will wail; everyone of Moab will wail.

You will moan for the ^araisin cakes of ^bKir‑hareseth

As those who are utterly stricken.

For the fields of ^aHeshbon have languished, the vines of ^bSibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;

^cIts tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Therefore I will ^aweep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah;

I will drench you with my tears, O ^bHeshbon and Elealeh;

For the shouting over your ^csummer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.

^aGladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful orchard;

In the ^bvineyards also there will be no cries of joy or shouts of jubilation,

No ^ctreader treads out wine in the presses,

For I have made the shouting to cease.

Therefore my ¹^ainner being moans like a harp for Moab

And my ²inward feelings for Kir‑hareseth.

So it will be when Moab ^aappears,

When he ^bwearies himself upon his ^chigh place

And comes to his sanctuary to pray,

That he will not prevail.

13 This is the word which Yahweh spoke earlier concerning Moab. 14 But now Yahweh speaks, saying, “Within three years, as ¹^aa hired man would count them, the glory of ^bMoab will be dishonored along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and not mighty.”

Jeremiah 48:1-47

Word Against Moab

Concerning ^aMoab. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,

“Woe to ^bNebo, for it has been destroyed;

^cKiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;

The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and ¹shattered.

There is praise for Moab no longer;

In ^aHeshbon they have devised calamity against her:

‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’

You too, ¹Madmen, will be silenced;

The sword will follow after you.

The sound of an outcry from ^aHoronaim,

‘¹Devastation and great destruction!’

Moab is broken;

Her little ones have made their cry of distress heard.

For by the ascent of ^aLuhith

They will ascend with continual weeping;

For at the descent of Horonaim

They have heard the distressed cry of destruction.

^aFlee, escape with your lives,

That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

For because of your ^atrust in your own works and treasures,

Even you yourself will be captured;

And ^bChemosh will go off into exile

Together with his priests and his princes.

A destroyer will come to every city,

So that no city will escape;

The valley also will perish,

And the ^aplateau will be destroyed,

As Yahweh has said.

Give ¹^awings to Moab,

For she will ²flee away;

And her cities will become a ^bdesolation,

Without inhabitants in them.

^aCursed be the one who does the work of Yahweh ^bwith a slack hand,

And cursed be the one who restrains his ^csword from blood.

“Moab has been ^aat ease since his youth;

He has also had ^bquiet, like wine on ¹its dregs,

And he has not been ^cemptied from vessel to vessel,

Nor has he gone into exile.

Therefore ²he retains his flavor,

And his aroma has not changed.

12 Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter ¹his jars. 13 And Moab will be ^aashamed of ^bChemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of ^cBethel, their trust.
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How can you say, ‘We are ^amighty warriors,

And men valiant for battle’?

Moab has been destroyed, and ¹men have gone up to ²his cities;

His choicest ³^ayoung men have also gone down to the slaughter,”

Declares the ^bKing, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.

“The disaster of Moab will ^asoon come,

And his calamity has quickly hastened.

Mourn for him, all you who live around him,

Even all of you who know his name;

Say, ‘How has the strong ¹^ascepter been broken,

A staff of beauty!’

^aCome down from your glory

And inhabit ¹the parched ground,

O inhabitant of the ^bdaughter of ^cDibon;

For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,

He has ruined your strongholds.

Stand by the road and keep watch,

O inhabitant of ^aAroer;

^bAsk him who flees and her who escapes

And say, ‘What has happened?’

Moab has been put to shame, for it has been ¹shattered.

Wail and cry out;

Declare by the ^aArnon

That Moab has been destroyed.

21 “Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, upon ^aJahzah, and against ^bMephaath, 22 and against Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, 23 and against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and ^aBeth-meon, 24 and against ^aKerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. 25 The ^ahorn of Moab has been cut in pieces and his ^barm broken,” declares Yahweh. 26 “^aMake him drunk, for he has ^bmagnified himself against Yahweh; so Moab will ¹wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. 27 Now was not Israel a ^alaughingstock to you? Or was he ¹^bcaught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you ^cshake your head in scorn.
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Leave the cities and dwell among the ^acrags,

O inhabitants of Moab,

And be like a ^bdove that nests

Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

^aWe have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—

Of his haughtiness, his ^bpride, his arrogance, and the exaltedness of his heart.

I know his ^afury,” declares Yahweh,

“But it is nothing;

His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.

Therefore I will ^awail for Moab,

Even for all Moab will I cry out;

¹I will moan for the men of ^bKir‑heres.

More than the ^aweeping for ^bJazer

I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!

Your branches stretched across the sea,

They reached to the sea of Jazer;

Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest

The destroyer has fallen.

So ^agladness and joy are gathered up

From the fruitful orchard, even from the land of Moab.

And I have made the wine to ^bcease from the wine presses;

No one will tread them with shouting,

The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

34 ^aFrom the outcry at Heshbon even to ^bElealeh, even to Jahaz they have given forth their voice, from ^cZoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. 35 I will make Moab cease,” declares Yahweh, “the one who offers offerings on the ^ahigh place and the one who ^boffers offerings in smoke to his gods.
36 “Therefore My ^aheart moans for Moab like flutes; My heart also moans like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have ^blost the abundance it produced. 37 For ^aevery head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and ^bsackcloth on the loins. 38 On all the ^arooftops of Moab and in its open squares ¹there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable ^bvessel,” declares Yahweh. 39 “How ¹shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an ^aobject of terror to all around him.”
40 For thus says Yahweh:

“Behold, one will ^aswoop like an eagle

And ^bspread out his wings against Moab.

Kerioth has been captured,

And the strongholds have been seized,

So the ^ahearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day

Will be like the heart of a ^bwoman in labor.

Moab will be ^adestroyed from being a people

Because he has ^bmagnified himself against Yahweh.

^aPanic and pit and pitfall are coming upon you,

O inhabitant of Moab,” declares Yahweh.

“The one who ^aflees from the panic

Will fall into the pit,

And the one who climbs up out of the pit

Will be caught in the pitfall;

For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,

The year of their ^bpunishment,” declares Yahweh.

“In the shadow of Heshbon

Those who flee stand without strength;

For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon

And a ^aflame from the midst of ^bSihon,

And it has devoured the ^ctop of the head of Moab

And the scalps of ¹those who rumble.

^aWoe to you, Moab!

The people of ^bChemosh have perished;

For your sons have been taken away captive

And your daughters into captivity.

Yet I will ¹^areturn the ²fortunes of Moab

In the last days,” declares Yahweh.

Thus far the judgment on Moab.