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Isaiah 15

Isa. 15:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Myb heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
shall cry out
za`aq (Hebrew #2199)
to shriek (from anguish or danger); by analogy, (as a herald) to announce or convene publicly
KJV usage: assemble, call (together), (make a) cry (out), come with such a company, gather (together), cause to be proclaimed.
Pronounce: zaw-ak'
Origin: a primitive root
for Moab
Mow'ab (Hebrew #4124)
from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
KJV usage: Moab.
Pronounce: mo-awb
Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 1
; βhis fugitives
briyach (Hebrew #1280)
a bolt
KJV usage: bar, fugitive.
Pronounce: ber-ee'-akh
Origin: from 1272
shall flee unto Zoar
Tso`ar (Hebrew #6820)
little; Tsoar, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Zoar.
Pronounce: tso'ar
Origin: from 6819
, an heifer
`eglah (Hebrew #5697)
a (female) calf, especially one nearly grown (i.e. a heifer)
KJV usage: calf, cow, heifer.
Pronounce: eg-law'
Origin: feminine of 5695
of three years old
shliyshiy (Hebrew #7992)
third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
KJV usage: third (part, rank, time), three (years old).
Pronounce: shel-ee-shee'
Origin: ordinal from 7969
: for by the mounting up
ma`aleh (Hebrew #4608)
an elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) priority
KJV usage: ascent, before, chiefest, cliff, that goeth up, going up, hill, mounting up, stairs.
Pronounce: mah-al-eh'
Origin: from 5927
of Luhith
Luwchiyth (Hebrew #3872)
from the same as 3871; floored; Luchith, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Luhith.
Pronounce: loo-kheeth'
Origin: or Luchowth (Jer. 48:5) {loo-khoth'}
with weeping
Bkiy (Hebrew #1065)
a weeping; by analogy, a dripping
KJV usage: overflowing, X sore, (continual) weeping, wept.
Pronounce: bek-ee'
Origin: from 1058
shall they go it up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
; for in the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
of Horonaim
Choronayim (Hebrew #2773)
double cave-town; Choronajim, a place in Moab
KJV usage: Horonaim.
Pronounce: kho-ro-nah'-yim
Origin: dual of a derivative from 2356
they shall raise up
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
a cry
za`aq (Hebrew #2201)
from 2199; a shriek or outcry
KJV usage: cry(-ing).
Pronounce: zah'-ak
Origin: and (feminine) zoaqah {zeh-aw-kaw'}
of δdestruction
sheber (Hebrew #7667)
from 7665; a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
KJV usage: affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
Pronounce: sheh'-ber
Origin: or sheber {shay'-ber}
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Isa. 16:11• 11Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirhares. (Isa. 16:11)
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or, to the borders thereof, even as an heifer.
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breaking.

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Destruction,
Heart,
Heifer,
Horonaim,
Moab; Moabites,
Three,
Year,
Zoar

Cross References

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My heart.
Isa. 16:9‑11• 9Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.
 10And taken away is joy and gladness out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyard there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses; I have made the cry to cease.
 11Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirhares. (Isa. 16:9‑11)
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Jer. 8:18‑19• 18My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!
 19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities? (Jer. 8:18‑19)
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Jer. 9:10,18‑19• 10For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.
 18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings. (Jer. 9:10,18‑19)
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Jer. 13:17• 17But if ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is carried away captive. (Jer. 13:17)
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Jer. 17:16• 16But as for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd in following thee, neither have I desired the fatal day, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face. (Jer. 17:16)
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Jer. 48:31‑36• 31Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.
 32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
 33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
 34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
 35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
 36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab, like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. (Jer. 48:31‑36)
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Luke 19:41‑44• 41And when he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it,
 42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes.
 43For days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall make a rampart about thee and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side,
 44and level thee with the ground and thy children in thee; and not leave in thee stone upon stone; because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:41‑44)
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Rom. 9:1‑3• 1Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit,
 2that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart,
 3for I could wish, I myself, to be a curse from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to flesh, (Rom. 9:1‑3)
his fugitives, etc.
or, to the borders thereof, even as anheifer.
Zoar.
Gen. 13:10• 10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar. (Gen. 13:10)
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Gen. 14:2• 2that they made war with Bera the king of Sodom, and with Birsha the king of Gomorrha, Shinab the king of Admah, and Shemeber the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. (Gen. 14:2)
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Gen. 19:22• 22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. (Gen. 19:22)
three.
Isa. 16:14• 14And now Jehovah speaketh, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nought, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account. (Isa. 16:14)
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Jer. 48:34• 34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. (Jer. 48:34)
the mounting.
Jer. 48:5,34• 5For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
 34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. (Jer. 48:5,34)
with.
2 Sam. 15:23,30• 23And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
 30But David went up by the ascent of the Olives, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. (2 Sam. 15:23,30)
destruction.
Heb. breaking.
Isa. 22:5• 5For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord Jehovah of hosts in the valley of vision, of breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountains. (Isa. 22:5)
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Jer. 4:20• 20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment. (Jer. 4:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My heart crieth out for Moab; their fugitives have fled unto Zoar, unto Eglath-Shelishijahd: for by the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.

JND Translation Notes

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Meaning, "a heifer of three years old."

W. Kelly Translation

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My heart crieth out for Moab; their nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.