Isaiah 15:3
New International Version
In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

New Living Translation
They will wear burlap as they wander the streets. From every home and public square will come the sound of wailing.

English Standard Version
in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.

Berean Standard Bible
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail, weeping bitterly.

New American Standard Bible
In their streets they have put on sackcloth; On their housetops and in their public squares Everyone is wailing, overcome with weeping.

NASB 1995
In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

NASB 1977
In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

Legacy Standard Bible
In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; On their rooftops and in their squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in weeping.

Amplified Bible
In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth; On their [flat] housetops and in their open squares Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

Christian Standard Bible
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails, falling down and weeping.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails, falling down and weeping.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In its streets they put on sackcloth, and upon the rooftops and in the market every man howls and comes down with weeping

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

Contemporary English Version
In the towns and at home, everyone wears sackcloth and cries loud and long.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.

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

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

Good News Translation
The people in the streets are dressed in sackcloth; in the city squares and on the rooftops people mourn and cry.

International Standard Version
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares everyone wails and falls down weeping.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; On their housetops, and in their broad places, Every one howleth, weeping profusely.

Literal Standard Version
In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, | On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, | Everyone howls—going down with weeping.

Majority Standard Bible
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

New American Bible
In the streets they wear sackcloth, and on the rooftops; In the squares everyone wails, streaming with tears.

NET Bible
In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

New Revised Standard Version
in the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.

New Heart English Bible
In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth; on their roofs and in their squares, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
An Oracle Concerning Moab
2Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. 3In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. 4Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.…

Cross References
James 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

1 Samuel 5:12
Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

Isaiah 3:24
Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Isaiah 22:1
This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

Isaiah 22:4
Therefore I said, "Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Jeremiah 48:37
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

Jeremiah 48:38
On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar," declares the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

their streets

2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

2 Kings 6:30
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

Jonah 3:6-8
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes…

on the

Isaiah 15:2
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 baldness, and every beard cut off.

Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Deuteronomy 22:8
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 15:5
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

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Isaiah 15
1. The lamentable state of Moab














(3) In their streets . . .--The picture of lamentation is continued. The flat roofs of Eastern houses were a natural resort for such wailings (Isaiah 22:1). The "broad places," the bazaars or market-places, were also, like the agora of Greek cities, a natural place of concourse. The prophet represents them as filled with the sound of wailing.

Verse 3. - In their streets; literally, in his streets; i.e. the streets of Moab. They shall gird themselves with sackcloth. Another widely spread custom, known to the Assyrians (Jonah 3:5), the Syrians (1 Kings 20:31), the Persians (Esther 4:1, 2), the Israelites (Nehemiah 9:1), and, as we see here, to the Moabites. The modern wearing of black garments, especially crape, is representative of the old practice. Every one shall howl. "Howling" remains one of the chief tokens of mourning in the East. It was a practice of the Egyptians (Herod., 2:79), of the Persians (ibid., 8:99; 9:24), of the Babylonians (Jeremiah 51:8), and probably of the Orientals generally. Weeping abundantly; or, running down with tears (comp. Jeremiah 9:18; Jeremiah 13:17; Herod., 8:99).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In its streets
בְּחוּצֹתָ֖יו (bə·ḥū·ṣō·ṯāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

they wear
חָ֣גְרוּ (ḥā·ḡə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2296: To gird, gird on, gird oneself

sackcloth;
שָׂ֑ק (śāq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag

on
עַ֣ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the rooftops
גַּגּוֹתֶ֧יהָ (gag·gō·w·ṯe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1406: A roof, the top of an altar

and in the public squares
וּבִרְחֹבֹתֶ֛יהָ (ū·ḇir·ḥō·ḇō·ṯe·hā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7339: A broad open place, plaza

they all
כֻּלֹּ֥ה (kul·lōh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

wail,
יְיֵלִ֖יל (yə·yê·lîl)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3213: To howl, make a howling

falling down
יֹרֵ֥ד (yō·rêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

weeping.
בַּבֶּֽכִי׃ (bab·be·ḵî)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1065: A weeping, a dripping


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