Isaiah 15:1
Good News Translation
This is a message about Moab. The cities of Ar and Kir are destroyed in a single night, and silence covers the land of Moab.

New Revised Standard Version
An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

Contemporary English Version
This is a message about Moab: The towns of Ar and Kir were destroyed in a night. Moab is left in ruins!

New American Bible
Oracle on Moab: Laid waste in a night, Ar of Moab is destroyed; Laid waste in a night, Kir of Moab is destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.

burden.

Isaiah 14:28-32 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden: . . .

,) in the first year of Hezekiah, and accomplished in his fourth year when Shalmaneser invaded Israel.

Isaiah 13:1 The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos saw.

Isaiah 14:28 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:

Moab

Isaiah 11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, till Moab shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.

Isaiah 25:10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

Jeremiah 9:26 Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

Jeremiah 48:1 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled.

Ezekiel 25:8-11 Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations: . . .

Amos 2:1-3 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes. . . .

Zephaniah 2:8-11 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have magnified themselves upon their borders. . . .

in the

Exodus 12:29,30 And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you: . . .

Ar

Numbers 21:28 A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

Deuteronomy 2:9,18 And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession. . . .

brought to silence.

Isaiah 16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl to Moab, every one shall howl: to them that rejoice upon the brick walls, tell ye their stripes.

Kir-hareseth

Isaiah 16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.

Kirharesh

2 Kings 3:25 And they destroyed the cities: And they filled every goodly field, every man casting his stone: and they stopt up all the springs of waters: and cut down all the trees that bore fruit, so that brick walls only remained: and the city was beset by the slingers, and a great part thereof destroyed.

Kir-haraseth

Jeremiah 48:31,36 Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn. . . .

Kir-heres

Context
An Oracle Concerning Moab
1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.2The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:28
A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

Isaiah 11:14
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines by the sea, they together shall spoil the children of the east: Edom, till Moab shall be under the rule of their hand, and the children of Ammon shall be obedient.

Isaiah 13:1
The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos saw.

Isaiah 25:10
For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

Isaiah 25:12
And the bulwarks of thy high walls shall fall, and be brought low, and shall be pulled down to the ground, even to the dust.

Jeremiah 48:1
Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled.

Ezekiel 25:8
Thus saith the Lord God: Because Moab and Seir have said: Behold the house of Juda is like all other nations:

Amos 2:1
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.

Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have magnified themselves upon their borders.

Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Isaiah 14:32
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