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Isaiah 15-16 catalogs the geographic sweep of Moabs doom from Ar to Kir-hareseth — naming Beer-elim Eglaim Sibmah Jazer and the cry that goes "round about the borders of Moab."
Isaiah 15-16 extends the prophet's great oracle against Moab by tracing the geographic sweep of the coming destruction from one frontier to the other: "For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim" (Isaiah 15:8). The chapters continue through Sibmah, Jazer, Ar, Kir-hareseth, and Moab itself — concluding with Isaiah's personal lament: "I will weep with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah" (Isa 16:9). The oracle is one of the most geographically detailed and emotionally invested foreign-nation prophecies in the prophetic literature.
Isaiah delivers an oracle against Moab — and what follows isn't triumphant. It's devastating. Cities fall in a single night, an entire nation dissolves into grief, and the prophet himself weeps for the people being destroyed.
IsaiahWhen Even the Prophet WeptMoab sends a desperate appeal to Judah for refuge, but their pride has already sealed their fate. What makes this chapter unforgettable is the prophet himself breaking down in tears over a nation that isn't even his own.
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