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Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken. For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

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Therefore the Moabites wail,(A)
    they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
    for the raisin cakes(B) of Kir Hareseth.(C)
The fields of Heshbon(D) wither,(E)
    the vines of Sibmah(F) also.
The rulers of the nations
    have trampled down the choicest vines,(G)
which once reached Jazer(H)
    and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out(I)
    and went as far as the sea.[a](J)
So I weep,(K) as Jazer weeps,
    for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,(L)
    I drench you with tears!(M)
The shouts of joy(N) over your ripened fruit
    and over your harvests(O) have been stilled.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:8 Probably the Dead Sea