Isaiah 15:3-9

3 In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out, and their hearts are faint.

5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.

6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.

7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.

8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

9 The waters of Dimon^[a] are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon^[b] — a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.

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Isaiah 15:3-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 15

This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites; two of their principal cities are mentioned as made desolate, Isa 15:1 the inhabitants in divers places are represented as weeping and mourning, and showing various signs of it, Isa 15:2,3 yea, not only the common people, but the armed soldiers also, Isa 15:4 nay, even the prophet himself, Isa 15:5 the reasons of which were the great drought, so that there were no grass, nor green thing, Isa 15:6 the carrying away of their good things, either by themselves or others, Isa 15:7 the flight and cry of the people to the very borders of the land, Isa 15:8 and the great effusion of blood, Isa 15:9.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 22

1. S Isaiah 3:24
2. S Joshua 2:8
3. Jeremiah 48:38
4. Isaiah 14:31; Jeremiah 47:2
5. ver 5; Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 22:4; Lamentations 2:11; Ezekiel 7:18; Micah 1:8
6. S Numbers 21:25; S Joshua 13:26
7. S Numbers 32:3
8. S Numbers 21:23
9. S ver 3
10. Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 48:31
11. S Numbers 21:29
12. S Genesis 13:10
13. Jeremiah 48:3,34
14. Jeremiah 4:20; Jeremiah 48:5
15. Isaiah 19:5-7; Jeremiah 48:34
16. Psalms 37:2; Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 24:4,7,11; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 37:27; Isaiah 40:7; Isaiah 51:6,12; Hosea 4:3; Joel 1:12
17. S Isaiah 14:17
18. Jeremiah 14:5
19. Isaiah 30:6; Jeremiah 48:36
20. S Numbers 21:16
21. S 2 Kings 17:25
22. Ezekiel 25:8-11

Footnotes 2

[a]. "Dimon" , a wordplay on "Dibon" (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for "blood" .
[b]. "Dimon" , a wordplay on "Dibon" (see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for "blood" .

Isaiah 15:3-9

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Isaiah 15:3-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 15

Cross References 22

Footnotes 2