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Module 2: The Burdens of the Nations and the Day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
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Yeshayahu 15
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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.
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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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The Biological Cry of the Armed Soldiers
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Yahatz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
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My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Tzoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luchith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonayim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
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The Desolation of the Ecological Matrix
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
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Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
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The Perimeter Howl and the Waters of Blood
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
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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.