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Isaiah 15:1

This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

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ASV

The burden of Moab. For in 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.

KJV

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מַשָּׂ֖אma.Sa'[the] oracle ofH4853 →
מוֹאָ֑בmo.'AvMoabH4124 →
כִּ֠יkithatH3588 →
בְּלֵ֞ילbe.Leilin a nightH3915 →
שֻׁדַּ֨דshu.Dad<of> [which] it was devastatedH7703 →
עָ֤ר'arArH6144 →
מוֹאָב֙mo.'Avof MoabH4124 →
נִדְמָ֔הnid.Mahit was destroyedH1820 →
כִּ֗יKithatH3588 →
בְּלֵ֛ילbe.Leilin a nightH3915 →
שֻׁדַּ֥דshu.Dad<of> [which] it was devastatedH7703 →
קִיר־kir-Kir ofH7024 →
מוֹאָ֖בmo.'AvMoabH4124 →
נִדְמָֽה׃nid.Mahit was destroyedH1820 →

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Amos 2:1–3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.Jeremiah 48:1–47Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.Numbers 21:28For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.Isaiah 11:14They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.Ezekiel 25:8–11This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”Isaiah 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.Isaiah 14:28In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:Isaiah 16:11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.Isaiah 16:7Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.1 Thessalonians 5:1–3Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.Zephaniah 2:8–11“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.Numbers 21:15even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”Isaiah 13:1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:Deuteronomy 2:9Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”Jeremiah 9:26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”Deuteronomy 2:18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.2 Kings 3:25They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.Exodus 12:29–30Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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