Isaiah 15:3 Parallel Translations

In their streets they wear sackcloth. On their roofs and in their city squares everyone wails and cries.(GOD'S WORD®)

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

ASV:

In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly.

BBE:

In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

DBY:

In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.

ERV:

In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth: on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one howleth, weeping abundantly.

JPS:

In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one howleth, weeping profusely.

WBS:

In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

WEB:

In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

YLT:

In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth -- going down with weeping.

Isaiah 15:3 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 22:4 Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Jeremiah 48:38 "On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel," declares the LORD.

Jonah 3:6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

15:3 On the tops - Which were made flat, to which men used to go up, to cry to God in heaven, or to men for help.

MHC:

15:1-9 The Divine judgments about to come upon the Moabites. - This prophecy coming to pass within three years, would confirm the prophet's mission, and the belief in all his other prophecies. Concerning Moab it is foretold, 1. That their chief cities should be surprised by the enemy. Great changes, and very dismal ones, may be made in a very little time. 2. The Moabites would have recourse to their idols for relief. Ungodly men, when in trouble, have no comforter. But they are seldom brought by their terrors to approach our forgiving God with true sorrow and believing prayer. 3. There should be the cries of grief through the land. It is poor relief to have many fellow-sufferers, fellow-mourners. 4. The courage of their soldiers should fail. God can easily deprive a nation of that on which it most depended for strength and defence. 5. These calamities should cause grief in the neighbouring parts. Though enemies to Israel, yet as our fellow-creatures, it should be grievous to see them in such distress. In ver. 6-9, the prophet describes the woful lamentations heard through the country of Moab, when it became a prey to the Assyrian army. The country should be plundered. And famine is usually the sad effect of war. Those who are eager to get abundance of this world, and to lay up what they have gotten, little consider how soon it may be all taken from them. While we warn our enemies to escape from ruin, let us pray for them, that they may seek and find forgiveness of their sins.

CONC:

Abundantly Bitter Broad Broadways Covering Crying Dissolved Dress Gird Girded Haircloth Houses Housetops Howl Howleth Melted Melts Out-places Pinnacles Places Profusely Prostrate Public Roofs Sackcloth Squares Streets Tears Themselves Tops Wail Waileth Wailing Wails Wear Weeping

Abundantly Bitter Broad Broadways Covering Crying Dissolved Dress Gird Girded Haircloth Houses Housetops Howl Howleth Melted Melts Out-Places Pinnacles Places Profusely Public Roofs Sackcloth Squares Streets Tears Themselves Tops Waileth Wailing Wails Wear Weeping

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