Isaiah 15

Isaiah 15
Isaiah 15
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	The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book	Book of Isaiah
Category	Nevi'im
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	23

Isaiah 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.^[1]^[2] This chapter and the following chapter deal with the forthcoming history of Moab.

Text

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Masoretic Text (10th century)
Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC) ^[3]^[4]
- 1QIsa^a: complete
- 1QIsa^b: extant: verses 2-9
- 4QIsa^o (4Q68): extant: verse 1

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

The burden against Moab.

Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste

And destroyed,

Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste

And destroyed,^[5]

My heart will cry out for Moab

Isaiah records his sympathy with Moab.^[6]

^ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
^ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
^ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
^ Ulrich 2010, p. 360-361.
^ Isaiah 15:1
^ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Isaiah 15, accessed 29 March 2018

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Kir of Moab". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.