Isaiah 15
1 [I received] this message [from Yahweh] about the Moab [people-group]: In one night [two of your important cities], Ar and Kir, will be destroyed.
| משא מואב כי בליל שדד ער מואב נדמה--כי בליל שדד קיר מואב נדמה |
2 The people of Dibon, [your capital city, ] will go to their temple to mourn/weep; they will go to [their shrines] on the hilltops to weep. They will wail because of [what happened to] Nebo and Medeba [towns in the south]; they will all shave the hair of their heads, and the men will cut off their beards [to show that they are grieving].
| עלה הבית ודיבן הבמות לבכי על נבו ועל מידבא מואב ייליל--בכל ראשיו קרחה כל זקן גרועה |
3 In the streets people will wear rough sackcloth, and on their [flat] rooftops and in the [city] plazas everyone will wail, with tears streaming down their faces.
| בחוצתיו חגרו שק על גגותיה וברחבתיה כלה ייליל ירד בבכי |
4 [The people of] Heshbon [city] and Elealeh [towns in the north of Moab] will cry out; people as far away as Jahaz [town in the south] will hear them wailing. Therefore the soldiers of Moab will tremble and cry out and they will be very afraid [IDM].
| ותזעק חשבון ואלעלה עד יהץ נשמע קולם על כן חלצי מואב יריעו--נפשו ירעה לו |
5 I feel very sorry for [the people of] Moab; they will flee to Zoar and Eglath-Shelishiyah [towns in the far south]. They will cry as they walk up to Luhith [town]. All along the road to Horonaim [town] people will mourn because their country has been destroyed.
| לבי למואב יזעק בריחה עד צער עגלת שלשיה כי מעלה הלוחית בבכי יעלה בו--כי דרך חורנים זעקת שבר יעערו |
6 The water in Nimrim [Valley] will have dried up. The grass there will be withered; the green plants will [all] be gone, and there will be nothing left that is green.
| כי מי נמרים משמות יהיו כי יבש חציר כלה דשא ירק לא היה |
7 The people will pick up their possessions and carry them across Willows Brook.
| על כן יתרה עשה ופקדתם--על נחל הערבים ישאום |
8 Throughout the country of Moab, [people] will be crying; people as far away as Eglaim [in the south] and Beer-Elim [in the north] will hear them wailing.
| כי הקיפה הזעקה את גבול מואב עד אגלים יללתה ובאר אילים יללתה |
9 The stream near Dimon will become red from the blood [of people who have been killed], but I will cause the people of Moab to experience even more [trouble]: Lions will attack those who [are trying to] escape from Moab and will [also] attack the people who remain in that country.
| כי מי דימון מלאו דם כי אשית על דימון נוספות--לפליטת מואב אריה ולשארית אדמה |
