Translation: King James Version
Key Word: “mourning” | Hebrew: “evel” | Meaning: “mourning”
Isaiah delivers a sorrowful lament over Moab’s coming devastation. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Isaiah 15.
Isaiah delivers the burden of Moab, describing how in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence, in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence, he is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep, Moab howling over Nebo, and over Medeba, on all their heads being baldness, and every beard being cut, describing genuine, widespread “mourning,” “evel” in Hebrew, throughout the land.
Isaiah describes how in their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone howling, weeping abundantly, Heshbon crying, and Elealeh, their voice being heard even to Jahaz, therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out, his life being grievous to him, Isaiah’s own heart crying out for Moab, his fugitives fleeing to Zoar, describing the waters of Nimrim being desolate, the hay withering away, the grass failing, there being no green thing.
Isaiah describes how the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, they shall carry away to the brook of the willows, the cry going round about the border of Moab, its howling reaching to Eglaim, and its howling to Beerelim, describing the waters of Dimon being full of blood, since God will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him who escapes of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land, this chapter’s extended, sorrowful lament revealing genuine compassion for a suffering people even amid necessary, prophesied judgment.
This chapter’s extensive, sorrowful lament over Moab’s coming devastation, including Isaiah’s own heart crying out for their suffering, reveals that pronouncing judgment never required abandoning genuine compassion for those affected by it. This unusual tenderness toward a historically hostile neighboring nation reminds readers that prophetic judgment, rightly understood, flows from genuine grief over sin’s real consequences rather than callous indifference or vindictive satisfaction.
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