Isaiah 15:7

Isaiah 15:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
• New International Version (NIV)So the wealth they have acquired and stored up they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.

Context of Isaiah 15:7

5I am very upset because of what is happening to Moab's people. They are running away, as far as Zoar and Eglath-Shelishiyah. They weep while they climb up the hill to Luhith. On the road to Horonaim they shout aloud, ‘An enemy has destroyed us!’ 6Streams in Nimrim valley have become dry. The grass has died. No green plants remain. So Moab's people are leaving. They are going across Willow stream. They are carrying away their things and the food that they had stored. 8Everywhere in Moab's country the people are calling out for help. The noise of their sad songs has reached Eglaim and Beer-Elim. 9Blood fills the streams of Dimon. But I, the Lord, will cause even more trouble to happen there. A lion is ready to attack! Those who are trying to escape will die, as well as those who remain in the land.

Isaiah 15:7 word by word

עַל־כֵּ֖ן יִתְרָ֣ה עָשָׂ֑ה וּפְקֻדָּתָ֔ם עַ֛ל נַ֥חַל הָעֲרָבִ֖ים יִשָּׂאֽוּם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore the abundanceיִתְרָהyithrâh · abundanceH3502
• they have gottenעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: offerH6213
• and that which they have laid upפְּקֻדָּהpeqûddâh · punishmentH6486
• shall they carry awayנָשָׂאnâώâ' nâsâh · to lift: bearH5375
• to the brookנַ֫חַלnachal nachlâh nachălâh · BrookH5158
• of the willowsעֲרָבָה‛ârâb · (Brook of) WillowsH6155

Cross-references for Isaiah 15:7

• Isaiah 5:29As they march to fight, they roar like lions. They are like strong young lions that catch other animals to eat. They carry their prisoners away to places where nobody can rescue them.
• Isaiah 10:6I send Assyria's army against a nation that does not serve God. I command them to attack the people with whom I am angry. I tell them to take that nation's valuable things for themselves. I tell them to walk all over them, as if they were walking on dirt in the streets.
• Nahum 2:12The lion killed to give enough food to his young lions and he strangled animals to feed his female lion. He filled his home with the animals that he had killed.
• Psalms 137:1When we sat down beside the rivers in Babylon, we were very upset. We thought about Zion city that we had left behind, and we wept.

Commentaries on Isaiah 15:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7"Shall perish" - אבדו abadu or אבדה abadeh . This word seems to have been lost out of the text: it is supplied by the parallel place, Jeremiah 48:36. The Syriac expresses it by עבר aber, praeteriit, "he hath passed;" and the Chaldee by יתבזזון yithbazezun, diripientur. To the brook of the willows "To the valley of willows" - That is, to Babylon. Hieron. and Jarchi in loc., both referring to Psalm 137:2. So likewise Prideaux, Le Clerc, etc.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Therefore, the abundance they have gotten - Their wealth they shall remove from a place that is utterly burned up with drought, where the waters and the grass fail, to another place where they may find water. To the brook of willows - Margin, The valley of the Arabians.‘ The Septuagint renders it, I will lead them to the valley of the Arabians, and they shall take it.‘ So Saadias. It might, perhaps, be called the valley of the Arabians, because it was the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8The exact locations of the Brook of the Willows, Eglaim, and Beer-elim are unknown.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Therefore--because of the devastation of the land. abundance--literally, "that which is over and above" the necessaries of life. brook of ... willows--The fugitives flee from Nimrim, where the waters have failed, to places better watered. Margin has "valley of Arabians"; that is, to the valley on the boundary between them and Arabia-Petræa; now Wady-el Arabah. "Arabia" means a "desert."Read the comment

In the dictionaries

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• Esther, the Rest of
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• Ezekiel

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