Isaiah 15:3

Isaiah 15:3 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

3In the streets they wear sackcloth;

on the roofs and in the public squares

they all wail,

prostrate with weeping.

3In their streets they have put on sackcloth;

On their housetops and in their public squares

Everyone is wailing, 15:3 Lit going down in weepingovercome with weeping.

3In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;

On their housetops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

3In their streets they have wrapped themselves with sackcloth;

On their [flat] housetops and in their open squares

Everyone is wailing, dissolved in tears.

3In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on the rooftops and in the public squares

they all wail, falling down weeping.

3In the streets they wear the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad.

On their roofs and in the market places

all of them are crying.

They fall down flat with their faces toward the ground.

And they weep.