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Isaiah 15:2-5

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2 They have gone up to the temple and to 1Dibon, even to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba; Everyone's head is 2bald and every beard is cut off.
3 In their streets they have girded themselves with 3sackcloth; 4On their housetops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, 5dissolved in tears.
4 6Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out, Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore * the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles within him.
5 My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as 7Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah *, For they go up the 8ascent of Luhith weeping; Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress 9over their ruin.
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Isaiah 15:2-5 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 9

  • 1. Jeremiah 48:18, 22
  • 2. Leviticus 21:5; Jeremiah 48:37
  • 3. Jonah 3:6-8
  • 4. Jeremiah 48:38
  • 5. Isaiah 22:4
  • 6. Numbers 21:28; Numbers 32:3; Jeremiah 48:34
  • 7. Jeremiah 48:34
  • 8. Jeremiah 48:5
  • 9. Isaiah 59:7; Jeremiah 4:20

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Lit "house"
  • [b]. Lit "going down in weeping"
  • [c]. Another reading is "the loins of"
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