Isaiah 15

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¹This message came to me concerning Moab: In one night the town of Ar will be leveled, and the city of Kir will be destroyed. ✦ ²Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn. They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba, shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards. ✦ ³They will wear burlap as they wander the streets. From every home and public square will come the sound of wailing. ✦ ⁴The people of Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out; their voices will be heard as far away as Jahaz! The bravest warriors of Moab will cry out in utter terror. They will be helpless with fear. ✦ ⁵My heart weeps for Moab. Its people flee to Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. Weeping, they climb the road to Luhith. Their cries of distress can be heard all along the road to Horonaim. ✦ ⁶Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains. ✦ ⁷The people grab their possessions and carry them across the Ravine of Willows. ✦ ⁸A cry of distress echoes through the land of Moab from one end to the other— from Eglaim to Beer-elim. ✦ ⁹The stream near Dibon runs red with blood, but I am still not finished with Dibon! Lions will hunt down the survivors— both those who try to escape and those who remain behind. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Jer 48 ·15 Isa 16 ·8 Num 32 ·5 Isa 22 ·4 Lev 26 ·4 Isa 15 ·3 Deut 2 ·3 Jer 9 ·3

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
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Seminary

★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 15David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 15Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
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