Isaiah 15 Cross References - Thomson

¹ The Oracle against Moab. In the night Moab is destroyed; for by night is destroyed the bulwark of Moab. ² Be in bitterness for yourselves; for Debon also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up to weep for Nabau of Moab, Raise the mournful cry. On every head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with Wounds. ³ In the streets thereof, gird on sackcloth, and on its house tops make lamentation; and in the streets thereof and in its lanes, raise ye all the mournful cry with weeping; ⁴ because Esebon and Eleale have screamed: even to Jassa their voice hath been heard; therefore the lungs of Moab utter lowings; her soul will be afflicted. ⁵ The heart of Moab within her uttereth lowings, which reach Segor: for she is a three headed heifer. At the ascent of Louith weepers will come up to thee; by the way of Aroniim destruction and dismay are roaring. ⁶ The water of Nemereim will be dried up; and its grass will fail; there will be no green grass. ⁷ But even thus it shall not be saved; for I will bring the Arabs against that valley; and they shall take it. ⁸ For the cry of war touched the border of Moab at Agaleim, and the scream thereof reacheth even to the well of Aileim. ⁹ As for the water of Deimon, it shall be full of blood; for I will bring the Arabians against Deimon, and carry off the seed of Moab and Ariel; and the remnant of Adama

²⁹ And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle. ³⁰ Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his attendants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there was not one dead.

²⁸ For a fire went forth from Hesebon; And a flame from the city of Seon; Which devoured even to Moab; Which devoured the pillars of Arnon.

⁹ the Lord said to me, Act not as enemies against the Moabites; nor come to a battle with them; for I will not give you for a possession any of their land; for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot, that they may inherit it.

¹⁸ Thou art now to pass by Aroer, along the borders of Moab;

²⁵ The cities they fc demolished, and on every good piece of ground they threw, every man his stone. And when they had filled it and stopped up every fountain, and cut down every goodly tree, until they left only the stones of the wall of Katheremenus, then the slingers surrounded this and smote it.

¹⁴ And they shall be wafted in the ships of foreign tribes; and they shall spoil both the sea and them of the east and Idumea; and upon Moab they shall first lay their hands; but the sons of Ammon shall first obey.

¹ A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw respecting Babylon.

²⁸ In the year in which king Achaz died, this Oracle was delivered.

⁷ Moab shall raise the mournful cry, for in the country of Moab they shall all utter the cry of Woe, but to them who dwell in the habitations of Seth thou shalt extend care and shalt not be ashamed."

¹¹ [p] For Moab therefore will my bowels sound like a kithara, and my entrails, as when thou didst consecrate a wall;

¹⁰ God will give rest on this mountain." When the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as a threshing floor is trampled with cars

²⁶ Upon Egypt, and upon Idumea, and upon Edom, and upon the Ammonites, and upon the Moabites, and upon all that have their foreheads shaven; namely them who dwell in the wilderness. Because all the nations are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts;

¹ Respecting Moab, Thus said the Lord, Alas! for Nabo; for it is destroyed. Kariathaim is taken. Amath and Agath are put to shame. ² There is no more a cure for Moab; a boasting in Esebon. He hath devised evils against her. We have cut her off from being a nation and she shall go to rest. Behind thee the sword shall stalk on. ³ Because there is a sound of screaming from Oronaim; destruction and great tribulation, ⁴ Moab is trodden down. Despatch news to Zogora that Aloth is filled with lamentation; ⁵ she will go up weeping by the way of Oronaim. You have heard the scream of distress; ⁶ flee and save your lives; and you shall be like a wild ass in the desert. ⁷ Seeing thou hast trusted in thy fortifications; therefore thou shalt be taken; and Chamos shall go into banishment, and his priests and his chiefs with him; ⁸ and destruction shall come on every city, none shall escape. The vale also shall be destroyed and the plain wasted as the Lord hath said. ⁹ Set up marks for Moab; for with destruction she shall be destroyed; and all her cities shall be for desolation. Whence can she have an inhabitant? ¹⁰ He is cursed who doth the work of the Lord negligently, withholding his sword from blood. ¹¹ Moab enjoyed rest from his youth and trusted in his glory; he hath not been decanted from vessel to vessel; and into banishment he hath never gone. Therefore his taste remaineth in him and his flavour is not lost: ¹² Therefore behold the days are coming saith the Lord, when I will send decanters and they shall decant him; and they shall break his vessels and cut to pieces his drinking horns; ¹³ and Moab shall be put to shame for Chamos, as the house of Israel were for Baithel their confidence. ¹⁴ How can ye who have put confidence in them, say, We are strong, and a man mighty for feats of war." ¹⁵ Moab is destroyed with his cities; and his chosen men are gone down to slaughter. The day of Moab is near at hand, and with speed his calamity is approaching. ¹⁶ [Omitted] ¹⁷ Shake your heads for him, all ye around him; pronounce his name, all of you, say, How the beautiful sceptre is broken! the sceptre of majesty ¹⁸ I Come down from glory and sit low in mire. Daibon shall be trampled down because Moab is destroyed. The demolisher of thy strong hold is come up against thee. Stand by the way side and take a view, ¹⁹ inhabitant of Aroer! ask him who is fleeing and making escape, and say, What is the news? ²⁰ Moab is put to shame; for he is utterly discomfited. Raise the mournful cry and scream; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab is destroyed. ²¹ Judgment is indeed coming on the land of Misor, upon Chalon, and Kephas, and Mophas, ²² and on Daibon, and on Nabo, and on the house of Daithlathaim, ²³ and on Kariathaim, and on the house of Gaimol, and on the house of Maon, ²⁴ and on Karioth, and on Bosor, and on all the cities of Moab far and near. ²⁵ The horn of Moab is hacked to pieces, and his prowess is broken. ²⁶ Make him drunk. Because he magnified himself against the Lord, he will therefore clap with his hand at Moab that he may be an object of derision; ²⁷ for was not Israel an object of mirth to thee and found among thy stolen goods, because thou didst fight against him? ²⁸ The inhabitants of Moab have left their cities and made their abode among rocks. They were like pigeons nestling in rocks at the mouth of a cave. ²⁹ [p] I have heard indeed of the pride of Moab: he was very proud; and of his haughtiness; his heart was elated. ³⁰ [J] But as for me I know his works: is not this his desert? Hath he not acted thus? ³¹ Therefore raise on all sides the mournful cry for Moab; scream for the men of Keiradas-anchmon. ³² [p] With the wailing of Jazer I will wail for thee, vine of Aserema. Thy branches extended to the sea; they reached to the cities of Jazer. When thy fruit was ripe; destruction came upon thy grape gatherers. ³³ Joy and gladness were snatched from Moab, when the vine was in thy lakes. In the morning there was no treading, and in the evening no shouts of joy. ³⁴ At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their cities from Zogar to Oroaim uttered their voice, and spread the news with an alarm. [J] Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up; ³⁵ therefore I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, when he is going up to the altar and burning incense to his gods. ³⁶ [p] For this let the heart of Moab groan like drone pipes. Let my heart sound like a drone for the men of Keiradas. [J] Because all that every man had procured is utterly destroyed; ³⁷ let them every where shave the whole head; and let the whole beard be shaven and all hands gashed; and let there be sackcloth on every loin ³⁸ and on all the house tops of Moab and in every street: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, like a vessel that is useless. ³⁹ How did he deprecate! How did Moab turn his back! Moab was ashamed and became a subject of laughter and derision to all around. ⁴⁰ For thus said the Lord, ⁴¹ Karioth is taken and the strong holds are surprised; ⁴² and Moab shall be destroyed from being a multitude. Because he magnified himself against the Lord, ⁴³ a trap, a scare-net and a pit are prepared for thee, inhabitant of Moab! ⁴⁴ He who fleeth from the scare-net shall fall into the pit; and he who getteth up out of the pit shall be caught in the trap. For I will bring these things on Moab in the year of their visitation.

⁸ Thus saith the Lord, Because Moab said, Behold! shall not the house of Israel and Juda be like all the nations? ⁹ Therefore behold I will loosen the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, that beautiful country the house of Bethasimoth, at the head of the fountain of the city on the sea shore. ¹⁰ I have set the children of Kedem over the Ammonites, I have given them to him for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the Ammonites, ¹¹ and upon Moab I will execute vengeance; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Moab, and for four shall I not be averse from him? Because he burned into lime the bones of the king of Idumea; ² therefore I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of her cities, and Moab shall die of weakness: with shouting and with the clangour of trumpets, ³ I will cut off her judge, and slay all her chiefs with him, saith the Lord.

⁸ I have heard the revilings of Moab and the buffets of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against my borders: ⁹ therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorra; and Damascus shall be left like the heap of a winnowing floor, and shall be desolate forever, that the remnant of my people may spoil them: and the remains of my nation shall inherit them. ¹⁰ This they shall have for their haughtiness, and their reproaches and for magnifying themselves against the Lord Almighty. ¹¹ The Lord will display himself illustriously against them, and will root out all the gods of the nations of the earth, and all the isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place;

¹ Now, in respect to the times and the seasons, you brethren, have no need of our writing to you; ² for you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord cometh as a thief at night. ³ For whilst they are saying, there is peace and safety, sudden destruction is then upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they cannot escape.

²⁷ You shall not make a rounding of the hair of your head, nor disfigure the appearance of your beard. ²⁸ You shall not make gashes in your body for the dead, nor any fixed marks on you. I am the Lord your God;

⁵ You shall not shave the head to make it bald, for the dead. Nor shall they shave their beard, nor make gashes in their flesh.

³⁰ And their seed was destroyed from Hesebon even to Daibon. And against Moab their wives rekindled a fire.

³ Ataroth, and Daibon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabo, and Baian,

³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names.

¹ You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not make a baldness between your eyes for the dead.

¹ Then Moses went up from Araboth Moab to mount Nabo, to the top of Phasga, which is over against Jericho, and the Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad, even to Dan,

¹⁶ and these were their borders; from Aroer, which is in front of the vale of Arnon, including the city in the vale of Arnon, all the Misor to ¹⁷ Esebon, and, all the cities in Misor, namely Daibon, and Baimon-baal, and house of Meelboth,

²⁰ Upon this Job rising up rent his clothes, and shaved his head, and falling on the ground he worshipped

²⁴ and instead of perfumes there shall be ashes; and instead of a girdle thou shalt be girded with rushes; and instead of a golden headdress thou shalt have baldness, on the account of thy doings; and instead of the purple robe thou shalt gird on sackcloth.

³¹ Raise the mournful cry ye gates of cities; foreign tribes! let harassed cities scream with one consent: for a smoke is coming from the north, which cannot be endured;

³ In the streets thereof, gird on sackcloth, and on its house tops make lamentation; and in the streets thereof and in its lanes, raise ye all the mournful cry with weeping;

¹² but it will be for the purpose of making thee ashamed. Because Moab had tired himself at the altars, therefore he will go in to the works of his hands; that they may intercede; but they shall not be able to deliver him.

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth,

²⁹ shave thy head and throw away the hair, and take up with thy lips a song of lamentation, for the Lord hath rejected and cast off the generation which hath done these things."

⁵ baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon is overthrown and the remnant of Enakim.

¹ Respecting Moab, Thus said the Lord, Alas! for Nabo; for it is destroyed. Kariathaim is taken. Amath and Agath are put to shame.

¹⁸ I Come down from glory and sit low in mire. Daibon shall be trampled down because Moab is destroyed. The demolisher of thy strong hold is come up against thee. Stand by the way side and take a view,

²² and on Daibon, and on Nabo, and on the house of Daithlathaim, ²³ and on Kariathaim, and on the house of Gaimol, and on the house of Maon,

³¹ Therefore raise on all sides the mournful cry for Moab; scream for the men of Keiradas-anchmon.

³⁷ let them every where shave the whole head; and let the whole beard be shaven and all hands gashed; and let there be sackcloth on every loin ³⁸ and on all the house tops of Moab and in every street: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, like a vessel that is useless. ³⁹ How did he deprecate! How did Moab turn his back! Moab was ashamed and became a subject of laughter and derision to all around.

¹⁸ And they shall gird on sackcloth; and amazement shall cover them. And shame shall be on all their faces: and on every head, baldness.

⁸ When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayst not occasion death by thy house, by any one's falling from it.

³¹ Then David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Bend your garments and gird on sackcloth, and utter lamentations before Abenner. And king David walked after the bier,

³⁰ When the king of Israel heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes, as he was passing along on the wall, so that all the people saw the sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

² Be in bitterness for yourselves; for Debon also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up to weep for Nabau of Moab, Raise the mournful cry. On every head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with Wounds.

¹ The Oracle concerning the valley of Sion. What aileth thee, that you are all now gone up to the house tops?

⁴ Therefore I said, "Let me alone; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for this distress of the daughter of my people.

¹³ And the houses of the kings of Juda shall be like this hopeless place, because of their impurities in all the houses on the tops of which they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out libations to strange gods.

⁶ When the word reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. ⁷ And proclamation was made and orders issued in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink water. ⁸ So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, saying,

²¹ Alas for thee Chorazin! Alas for thee Bethsaida! For had the miracles, which have been performed in you, been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented long ago in sack cloth and ashes.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekka said to Isaak, I am weary of my life on account of the daughters of the children of Chet. If Jacob should take a wife of the daughters of this land what would life be to me?

¹⁵ If thou deal thus with me, kill me outright, if I have found favour in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.

²³ But Seon would not grant Israel a passage through his territories. He indeed assembled all his people, and went out to the wilderness, to attack Israel, and came to Jessa, and drew up in array against Israel.

³ Ataroth, and Daibon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabo, and Baian, ⁴ the land which the Lord delivered up before the children of Israel, is a land fit for raising stock, and thy servants have cattle;

³² So Seon, king of Esebon, came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Jassa.

¹⁸ and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Maiphaad,

²⁰ but Seon would not trust Israel to pass through along his border, but assembled all his people, and encamped at Jasa, and came to an engagement with Israel.

⁴ and he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness; and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and intreated that he might die, and said, Let the present suffice. Take, I beseech thee, O Lord, my life from me; for I am not better than my fathers

²⁰ For why is light given to them in misery; or life to souls distressed with sorrow, ²¹ who long for death but find it not; though they dig for it as for treasures; ²² and would rejoice exceedingly if they should chance to find it.

¹⁵ Wilt thou drive away my life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death? ¹⁶ For I am not to live forever, that I should bear patiently. Withdraw from me; for my life is vanity.

⁸ The plains of Esebon shall mourn; the vineyard Sebama. Ye who drink up the nations, trample down her vineyards to Jazer. You need not march in close array: roam through the wilderness. They who were dispatched were wholly given up, for they passed through quite to the sea. ⁹ [p] Let me therefore weep, as with the weeping of Jazer, for the vineyards of Sebama. He hath cut down thy trees, Esebon and Eleale. [J] Because in harvest and at thy vintage I will trample down and all shall be laid prostrate;

³ [because they chose death rather than life] even to all the residue left of that generation, in every place whither I shall drive them.

¹⁸ To what purpose this? I came forth from the womb to see labours and sorrows, and my days have been spent in shame.

³⁴ At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their cities from Zogar to Oroaim uttered their voice, and spread the news with an alarm. [J] Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up;

³ Now, therefore, Sovereign Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And when the sun rose God ordered a burning wind to spring up and the sun beat upon Jonas' head so that he became fainty and abandoned himself to despair and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁶ And in those days the men will seek death and shall not find it; and they will earnestly desire to die and death will flee from them.

¹⁰ Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gormorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land, of Egypt.

² made war on Balla king of Sodom, and on Barsa king of Gomorra, and on Sennaar king of Adama, and Sumobor king of Seboeim, and the king of Balak which is Segor.

²² Haste therefore to escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou get there. For this cause he called the name of that city, Segor.

²³ And all the country wept with a loud voice, while all the people were crossing the brook Kedron. And when the king had crossed the brook Kedron, all the people, and the king, continued their march by the way to the wilderness.

³⁰ And David went up by the ascent of the olive orchards, weeping as he went up, and having his head covered, and walking barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered, every one, his head, and went up weeping as they went.

⁹ [p] Let me therefore weep, as with the weeping of Jazer, for the vineyards of Sebama. He hath cut down thy trees, Esebon and Eleale. [J] Because in harvest and at thy vintage I will trample down and all shall be laid prostrate; ¹⁰ therefore gladness and the shout of joy shall be taken from the vineyards. And in thy vineyards they shall not rejoice, nor tread out wine in thy cisterns, for a stop is put to the shout of joy. ¹¹ [p] For Moab therefore will my bowels sound like a kithara, and my entrails, as when thou didst consecrate a wall;

¹⁴ And now I say, within three years of the years of an hireling the glory of Moab shall be debased with all his abundant wealth; and he shall be left few in number and of no estimation.

⁵ For it is a day of trouble and destruction and treading down. There is indeed some wandering from the Lord of Hosts; in the valley of Sion they are wandering about; from the least to the greatest they are wandering on the mountains.

²⁰ It calleth for contrition; for the whole land is in deep distress. My tent is suddenly whelmed in ruin; my curtains are rent to pieces. How long shall I see men fleeing!

¹⁸ with incurable wounds, which shall pain your throbbing hearts. ¹⁹ Hark! a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land!" Is not the Lord in Sion? Is he not king there?" Because they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities.

¹⁰ Take ye up a lamentation for the mountains, and for the paths of the wilderness, a song of woe; for such is the desolation that there are no men, nor is there a sound of existence heard from birds of the air, nor from cattle. They were confounded. They are fled.

¹⁸ and take up a mournful lamentation for you: and let your eyes collect tears, and your eye lids gush out water. ¹⁹ [p] Because a sound of wailing is heard in Sion; "Oh how wretched we are! how greatly confounded because we have left our land, and abandoned our habitations:"

¹⁷ But if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the flock of the Lord is destroyed.

¹⁶ As for me, I was not weary of following Thee, nor did I desire the day of a man: Thou knowest. The words which pass my lips are before Thee,

⁵ she will go up weeping by the way of Oronaim. You have heard the scream of distress;

³¹ Therefore raise on all sides the mournful cry for Moab; scream for the men of Keiradas-anchmon. ³² [p] With the wailing of Jazer I will wail for thee, vine of Aserema. Thy branches extended to the sea; they reached to the cities of Jazer. When thy fruit was ripe; destruction came upon thy grape gatherers. ³³ Joy and gladness were snatched from Moab, when the vine was in thy lakes. In the morning there was no treading, and in the evening no shouts of joy. ³⁴ At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their cities from Zogar to Oroaim uttered their voice, and spread the news with an alarm. [J] Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up; ³⁵ therefore I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, when he is going up to the altar and burning incense to his gods. ³⁶ [p] For this let the heart of Moab groan like drone pipes. Let my heart sound like a drone for the men of Keiradas. [J] Because all that every man had procured is utterly destroyed;

⁴¹ And as he drew near he viewed the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, O that thou hadst known; even thou; even in this very ay of thine, the things which were for thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ For days will come upon thee, when thine enemies will surround thee with a rampire; and enclose thee; and shut thee up on every side; ⁴⁴ and dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and not leave one stone on another; because thou didst not know the time of this thy visitation.

¹ I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience, with a holy spirit, bearing joint witness for me ² that I have great grief and incessant sorrow in my heart ³ [for I even I myself wished the followers of Christ to be devoted to destruction,] for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep.

²⁷ and Enadom, and Othargai, and Bainthanabra, and Sokchotha, and Saphan, and the residue of the kingdom of Seon, king of Esebon. And the Jordan is their boundary, to a part of the sea of Cheneroth, on the east side of the Jordan.

⁹ [p] Let me therefore weep, as with the weeping of Jazer, for the vineyards of Sebama. He hath cut down thy trees, Esebon and Eleale. [J] Because in harvest and at thy vintage I will trample down and all shall be laid prostrate; ¹⁰ therefore gladness and the shout of joy shall be taken from the vineyards. And in thy vineyards they shall not rejoice, nor tread out wine in thy cisterns, for a stop is put to the shout of joy.

⁵ The Egyptians drink water even that near the sea, but the river shall fail and be dried up; ⁶ both the streams and the canals of the river shall fail; and every collection of water shall be dried up, even every fen, where reeds and papyrus grow. ⁷ And all the quick springing herbage which is around the river, and every thing which is sown by the river shall be dried up and withered by the wind.

¹⁰ because the fields are wasted. Let the land mourn: because the corn hath suffered grievously: wine is dried away; oil is diminished; ¹¹ husbandmen are parched up: Mourn, ye farms, for the wheat and barley, because the harvester is perished from the field. ¹² The vines are withered and the fig trees are diminished; peach and palm and citron trees and all the trees of the field are withered. Because the children of men are ashamed of joy,

¹⁷ Since the fig tree will not flourish, nor will there be fruit on the vines; the product of the olive will fail and the fields will supply no food; For want of food the flocks have failed, and there are no kine in the stalls; ¹⁸ As for me, I will rejoice in the Lord; I shall have joy for God my saviour.

⁷ And the first angel sounded; and there was hail and fire mingled with blood which were thrown on the earth and the third part of the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

¹ For David, a Psalm of Jeremias. By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Sion. ² Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung up our harps;

²⁹ They growl like lions, and are at hand like young lions. He will seize and roar like a wild beast and drive out the people, and there shall be none to deliver them.

⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

¹⁴ and shake inhabited cities, and seize with my hand the whole World as a nest; and carry off the inhabitants like deserted eggs. There is none who can escape me or chirp against me."

⁶ This is the vision of the four footed beasts in the desert; A lion and a lion's whelp were in distress and difficulty; and from them went the asps and the brood of flying serpents, who carried their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which could not profit them.

³⁶ [p] For this let the heart of Moab groan like drone pipes. Let my heart sound like a drone for the men of Keiradas. [J] Because all that every man had procured is utterly destroyed;

¹² The old lion had seized enough for his whelps, and had strangled for his lionesses, and had filled his hole with prey, and his den with ravin: ¹³ behold I am against thee saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn out thy multitude with smoke; and a sword shall devour thy lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth; and of thy deeds nothing more shall be heard.

² Be in bitterness for yourselves; for Debon also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up to weep for Nabau of Moab, Raise the mournful cry. On every head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with Wounds. ³ In the streets thereof, gird on sackcloth, and on its house tops make lamentation; and in the streets thereof and in its lanes, raise ye all the mournful cry with weeping; ⁴ because Esebon and Eleale have screamed: even to Jassa their voice hath been heard; therefore the lungs of Moab utter lowings; her soul will be afflicted. ⁵ The heart of Moab within her uttereth lowings, which reach Segor: for she is a three headed heifer. At the ascent of Louith weepers will come up to thee; by the way of Aroniim destruction and dismay are roaring.

²⁰ Moab is put to shame; for he is utterly discomfited. Raise the mournful cry and scream; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab is destroyed. ²¹ Judgment is indeed coming on the land of Misor, upon Chalon, and Kephas, and Mophas, ²² and on Daibon, and on Nabo, and on the house of Daithlathaim, ²³ and on Kariathaim, and on the house of Gaimol, and on the house of Maon, ²⁴ and on Karioth, and on Bosor, and on all the cities of Moab far and near.

³¹ Therefore raise on all sides the mournful cry for Moab; scream for the men of Keiradas-anchmon. ³² [p] With the wailing of Jazer I will wail for thee, vine of Aserema. Thy branches extended to the sea; they reached to the cities of Jazer. When thy fruit was ripe; destruction came upon thy grape gatherers. ³³ Joy and gladness were snatched from Moab, when the vine was in thy lakes. In the morning there was no treading, and in the evening no shouts of joy. ³⁴ At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their cities from Zogar to Oroaim uttered their voice, and spread the news with an alarm. [J] Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up;

¹⁰ And fishermen shall there take a stand, from Engadin to Enagallim. There shall be a place for drying nets. The nets shall be of a peculiar kind; and the fishes thereof shall be like the fishes of the great sea; a very great multitude.

¹⁸ And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will proceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences,

²¹ And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins; ²² I will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your high ways shall be desolate.

²⁴ I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you seven fold for your sins;

²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins.

²⁵ But as they did not, at the beginning of their settlement, fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them. And when they were making havock among them,

³ For I will send against them four kinds of avengers, saith the Lord, the sword to slay; and the dogs to tear; and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air to devour and destroy.

⁴³ a trap, a scare-net and a pit are prepared for thee, inhabitant of Moab! ⁴⁴ He who fleeth from the scare-net shall fall into the pit; and he who getteth up out of the pit shall be caught in the trap. For I will bring these things on Moab in the year of their visitation.

¹⁷ Israel was a wandering sheep. Lions scared him away. The first who devoured him was the king of Assur, and this last, the king of Babylon gnawed his bones.

¹⁹ As if a man would flee from the face of a lion and a bear met him, or, as if one would leap into a house and leaning his hand on the wall a serpent bit him.