Thematic Bible
Isaiah 15:1 (show verse)
A message concerning Moab: "For Ir in Moab is destroyed in a night, and Moab is ruined! Because Ir in Moab is destroyed in a single night, Moab is ruined!
Isaiah 15:2 (show verse)
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely bald, and every beard is shaved off.
Bajith » A place of idolatrous worship in moab
Beard » Cut
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Dibon » Also called dibon-gad and dimon » Taken by moab
Head » Illustrative » (made bald,) of heavy judgments
Medeba » An idolatrous "high place,"
Nebo » Town and district
Nebo » A city » Allotted » Tribe of reuben » Prophecies concerning
Beard » Cut
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Dibon » Also called dibon-gad and dimon » Taken by moab
Head » Illustrative » (made bald,) of heavy judgments
Medeba » An idolatrous "high place,"
Nebo » Town and district
Nebo » A city » Allotted » Tribe of reuben » Prophecies concerning
Isaiah 15:3 (show verse)
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down weeping.
Isaiah 15:4 (show verse)
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins of Moab cry aloud; its heart quakes for itself.
Isaiah 15:5 (show verse)
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent to Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.
Isaiah 15:6 (show verse)
The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is no foliage left.
Isaiah 15:7 (show verse)
Therefore the wealth they have acquired and what they have stored up they carry them away over the Arab Wadi.
Isaiah 15:8 (show verse)
For the cry has gone out along the border of Moab; her wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, her wailing reaches as far as Beer-elim.
Isaiah 15:9 (show verse)
The Dibon streams are full of blood; but I will bring upon Dibon even more a lion will pounce upon those of Moab who escape, upon those who remain in the land."