Isaiah 15:3-5

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.

Isaiah 15:3-5 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.

Cross References

• 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