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 also cry out, Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz; Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; His soul trembles within him. 5My heart cries out for Moab; His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah, For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their collapse. For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died, There is no greenery. 7Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up, They carry it off over the brook of Arabim. 8For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab, Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling 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

• watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• of Nimrimנִמְרִיםnimrîym · NimrimH5249
• desolateמְשַׁמָּהmeshammâh · devastationH4923
• Indeedכִּיkîy · forH3588
• the grassחָצִירchâtsîyr · grassH2682
• is witheredיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
• the newדֶּ֫שֶׁאdeshe' · grassH1877
• has diedכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: expendH3615
• noלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• greeneryיֶ֫רֶקyereq · greenH3418

Cross-references for Isaiah 15:6

• Numbers 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
• Joshua 13:27and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, 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 beyond the Jordan to the east.
• Isaiah 16:9Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, for the vine of Sibmah; I will drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh; For the shouting over your summer fruits and your harvest has fallen away.
• Joel 1:10The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine has dried up, Fresh oil has failed.
• Habakkuk 3:17Even if the fig tree does not blossom, And there is no fruit on the vines, If the yield of the olive fails, And the fields produce no food, Even if the flock disappears from the fold, And there are no cattle in the stalls,
• Revelation 8:7The first sounded, and there was 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

• Cry
• Hay
• Leek
• Nimrim, Waters of
• Arnon
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• Beth-Nimrah
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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