1 A message a15:1 Lit. An oracle concerning Moab: “For Ir b15:1 Or For the city; so 1QIsaa; MT reads Ar; LXX lacks For Ir in Moab is destroyed in a night, and Moab c15:1 So 1QIsaa; MT reads it; LXX lacks it is ruined! Because Ir d15:1 Or Because the city; so 1QIsaa; 4QIsao MT LXX read Because the wall or Because Kir in Moab is destroyed in a single night, Moab is ruined! ISV — Isaiah 15:1
2 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 e15:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads all its heads are; MTmss LXX read Over every head; cf. Jer 48:37 bald, and f15:2 So 1QIsaa Mtmss LXX; the Heb. lacks and every beard is shaved off. ISV — Isaiah 15:2
3 In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down g15:3 So 1QIsaa; MT reads falling down; LXX lacks and falls down weeping. ISV — Isaiah 15:3
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins h15:4 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads armed men of Moab cry aloud; its heart quakes for itself. ISV — Isaiah 15:4
5 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. ISV — Isaiah 15:5
6 The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is i15:6 So 1QIsaa; MT reads was or there has been; LXX reads there will be no foliage left. ISV — Isaiah 15:6
7 Therefore the wealth they have acquired and what they have stored up— they carry them away over the Arab j15:7 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; MT reads Willow Wadi. k15:7 i.e. a seasonal stream or river that channels water during rain seasons but is dry at other times ISV — Isaiah 15:7
8 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. ISV — Isaiah 15:8
9 The Dibon l15:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Dimon; LXX reads Remmon streams are full of blood; but I will bring upon Dibon m15:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Dimon; LXX reads Remmon even more— a lion will pounce n15:9 1QIsaa LXX MT lack will pounce upon those of Moab who escape, upon o15:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks upon those who remain in the land.” ISV — Isaiah 15:9