LHC Midday Word: The Book of ISAIAH

Friday, 25 July 2025

The Book of ISAIAH - Chapter Fifteen

1 A prophecy against Moab:
Ar in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
Kir in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!

2
Dibon goes up to its temple,
    to its high places to weep;
    Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is shaved
    and every beard cut off.
3
In the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
    prostrate with weeping.
4
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.
5
My heart cries out over Moab;
    her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
    as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
    weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim
    they lament their destruction.
6
The waters of Nimrim are dried up
    and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone
    and nothing green is left.
7
So the wealth they have acquired and stored up
    they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8
Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
    their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
    their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9
The waters of Dimon are full of blood,
    but I will bring still more upon Dimon –
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab
    and upon those who remain in the land.