31 (A)Wail, O (B)gate; cry out, O city;
    melt in fear, (C)O Philistia, all of you!
(D)For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in his ranks.

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He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (A)Dibon,
    to the high places[b] to weep;
over (B)Nebo and over (C)Medeba
    Moab (D)wails.
On every head is (E)baldness;
    every beard is shorn;
in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
  2. Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places

For a cry has gone
    around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
    her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

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Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,
    (A)let everyone wail.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
    for the (B)raisin cakes of (C)Kir-hareseth.

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(A)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
    (B)wail for her!
(C)Take balm for her pain;
    perhaps she may be healed.

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(A)“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

(B)“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

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