Isaiah 15:6

Isaiah 15:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
• New International Version (NIV)The waters of Nimrim are dried up and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone and nothing green is left.
• English Standard Version (ESV)the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green.

Context of Isaiah 15:6

4Heshbon and Elealeh [cities claimed by Moab] cry out; Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out; Moab’s soul trembles within him. 5My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are [fleeing] as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah. For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; For on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their destruction. For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies; There is no green thing. 7Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored away They carry off over the Brook of the Willows. 8For the cry of distress has echoed around the territory of Moab; The wailing goes as far as Eglaim and the mournful cry to Beer-elim.

Isaiah 15:6 word by word

כִּֽי־מֵ֥י נִמְרִ֖ים מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת יִֽהְי֑וּ כִּֽי־יָבֵ֤שׁ חָצִיר֙ כָּ֣לָה דֶ֔שֶׁא יֶ֖רֶק לֹ֥א הָיָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For the watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• of Nimrimנִמְרִיםnimrîym · NimrimH5249
• shall be desolateמְשַׁמָּהmeshammâh · devastationH4923
• for the hayחָצִירchâtsîyr · grassH2682
• is withered awayיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
• the grassדֶּ֫שֶׁאdeshe' · grassH1877
• failethכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: expendH3615
• there is no green thingיֶ֫רֶקyereq · greenH3418

Cross-references for Isaiah 15:6

• Numbers 32:3“[The country around] Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
• Joshua 13:27and in the valley, Beth-haram and Beth-nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth (Galilee) east of the Jordan.
• Isaiah 16:9Therefore I (Isaiah) will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vines of Sibmah. I will drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; For the war-cry [of the enemy] has fallen on your summer fruits and your harvest.
• Joel 1:10The field is ruined, The ground mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine is dried up, The fresh oil fails.
• Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not blossom And there is no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive fails And the fields produce no food, Though the flock is cut off from the fold And there are no cattle in the stalls,
• Revelation 8:7The first [angel] sounded [his trumpet], and there was [a storm of] hail and fire, mixed with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

Commentaries on Isaiah 15:6

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6For the waters of Nimrim - It is supposed by some that the prophet here states the cause why the Moabites would flee to the cities of the south, to wit, that the “waters” of the northern cities would fail, and the country become desolate, and that they would seek support in the south. But it is more probable that he is simply continuing the description of the desolation that would come upon Moab. Nimrah, or Beth Nimra, meaning a “house of limpid waters,”…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6The exact location of the waters of Nimrim is unknown (see also Jeremiah 48:34). dried up … withered … the vegetation: For more on natural resources drying up as a form of judgment, see study note on Isaiah 24:4.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. For--the cause of their flight southwards (2Ki 3:19, 25). "For" the northern regions and even the city Nimrim (the very name of which means "limpid waters," in Gilead near Jordan) are without water or herbage.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 15:6

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In the dictionaries

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• Nimrim, Waters of
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Commentaries on Isaiah 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings