15: 1 The ¹⁷⁹burden of Moab. For ¹⁸⁰in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought.
¹⁷⁹Or, oracle concerning Moab.
¹⁸⁰Or, in the night (both times)

15: 2 ¹⁸¹They are gone up to ¹⁸²Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth ¹⁸³over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
¹⁸¹Or, Bayith and Dibon are gone up to the high places to weep:
¹⁸²Or, the temple
¹⁸³Or, upon Nebo, and upon Medeba;

15: 3 In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.
15: 4 And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him.
15: 5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her ¹⁸⁴nobles flee unto Zoar, ¹⁸⁵to Eglath-shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of ¹⁸⁶Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
¹⁸⁴Or with different points (vowels), fugitives
¹⁸⁵Or, as a heifer three years old: Cf. ch. 16:14.
¹⁸⁶Meaning two caverns.

15: 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be ¹⁸⁷desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
¹⁸⁷Hb. desolations;

15: 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.
15: 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.
15: 9 For the waters of ¹⁸⁸Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
¹⁸⁸1QIsa^a reads Dibon (both times)