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CHAPTER 15
Moab shall be laid wast and her people shall howl and weep. |
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1 THE
aburden of bMoab. Because in the night
cAr of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
because in the night Kir of dMoab is laid waste, and
brought to silence;
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be abaldness, and every beard bcut offa. 3 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. |
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| 2a on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off This is representation of shame and reproach to be made bald and beardless. Since the burden is associated with the time of the gathering in of Israel, when the Lord remembers his covenant with Israel, the question becomes is the baldness and beardless state merely symbolic or literal. And if literal is it a product of being shaved by man or is it the result of the type of destruction to come upon them, such as radiation from atomic warfare? |
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Ezra 5:1 3a D&C 88:63; TG Repentance 3 Ne. 10:6
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Ar is laid waste in the night and silent (v1) * These locations not located on the map and there are a few places on the map not named in these verses. How these coorelate is not known. And whether anyplace will be missed in the destruction is doubtful, as it appears that the whole region will be effected. |
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4 And Heshbon shall acry, and
Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the
armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto
him.
5 My aheart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an bheifer of three years old: for by cthe mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of dHoronaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. |
1a
Ezra 5:1 3a D&C 88:63; TG Repentance 3 Ne. 10:6
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7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that
which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the
abrook of the willows.
8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto aBeer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. |
1a
Ezra 5:1 3a D&C 88:63; TG Repentance 3 Ne. 10:6
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