Eglath-shelishiyah

Eglath-shelishiyah ("the third Eglath" or "the three-year-old heifer") appears in the prophetic laments of both Isaiah and Jeremiah against Moab (Isaiah 15:5, Jeremiah 48:34). In Isaiah's oracle, the fugitives of stricken Moab "cry as far as Eglath-shelishiyah... they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction." The phrase is enigmatic — readable as either a poetic image (a three-year-old heifer reaching its prime, cut down) or as a literal place in southern Moab. Most translators treat it as a place name, possibly near the Brook of the Willows — a doomed town whose name sounded the note of mourning.