Isaiah 15:3

Isaiah 15:3

Proclamation Against Moab

1 The ^aburden against Moab.
Because in the night ^bAr of ^cMoab is laid waste
And destroyed,
Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste
And destroyed,

2 He has gone up to the¹ temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
^aOn all their heads will be baldness,
And every beard cut off.

3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, ^aweeping bitterly.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as ^aJahaz;
Therefore the¹ armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.

5 “My^a heart will cry out for Moab;
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar,
Like¹ a three-year-old heifer.
For ^bby the Ascent of Luhith
They will go up with weeping;
For in the way of Horonaim
They will raise up a cry of destruction,

6 For the waters ^aof Nimrim will be desolate,
For the green grass has withered away;
The grass fails, there is nothing green.

7 Therefore the abundance they have gained,
And what they have laid up,
They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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tops of . . . houses—flat; places of resort for prayer, etc., in the East (Acts 10:9).

weeping abundantly—"melting away in tears." HORSLEY prefers "descending to weep." Thus there is a "parallelism by alternate construction" [LOWTH], or chiasmus; "howl" refers to "tops of houses." "Descending to weep" to "streets" or squares, whither they descend from the housetops.

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