1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.
2 The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: ton all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.
3 In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.
4 Hesebon shall cry, and Eleale, their voice is heard even to Jasa. For this shall the well appointed men of Moab howl, his soul shall howl to itself.
5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nemrim shall be desolate, for the grass is withered away, the spring is faded, all the greenness is perished.
7 According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the border of Moab: the howling thereof unto Gallim, and unto the well of Elim the cry thereof.
9 For the waters of Dibon are filled with blood: for I will bring more upon Dibon: the lion upon them that shall flee of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
Versículos relacionados com Isaiah, 15:
Isaiah 15 describes the destruction of Moab, a neighboring people of Israel. The chapter narrates the affliction and despair of the Moabites in the face of the invasion and divine judgment. Next are five verses related to the topics addressed in Isaiah 15:
Jeremiah 48:46: "Woe to you, Moab! The people of whom he perished, because your children were taken captive to the captivity, and your daughters, to captivity." This verse talks about the capture and exile of the Moabites by the Babylonians, an event that was prophesied by Isaiah in his book.
Psalm 60:8: "The Moab I will throw my shoe; over Edom I will cry out loud; I do so, O Philistia, because of me." This verse expresses God's wrath against Moab and other enemy nations of Israel.
2 Kings 3:27: "Then he took his firstborn, who should reign in his place, and offered him in Holocaust on the wall. And there was great indignation in Israel; . " This verse reports an extreme act of human sacrifice committed by the Moabites in an attempt to escape defeat.
Jeremiah 48:35: "And I will end the one offers sacrifices in the ups, and what burns incense to their gods." This verse is a prophecy about the destruction of the altars of worship of pagan gods in Moab.
Ezekiel 25:8: "Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, For they mill and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all other nations." This verse highlights the hostility of the Moabites in relation to Judah, the sister nation of Israel.
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